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Lies, damn lies, and misleading data: bus service (DC Circulator)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The fact is that public services ought to be offered where they are used, although breadth--offering services where they wouldn't otherwise be available--is an important criterion too. The thing is, most Circulator bus lines duplicate in some ways Metrobus service.

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What Causes “Urban Prairies” in Shrinking Cities?

Center for Community Progress

Vacant properties and declining public services can all discourage people from moving in and promote moving out, leading to still more shrinkage. Owners give up, walk away, and stop paying property taxes, and increasing numbers of properties revert to public ownership for nonpayment.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I made a presentation about this at the University of Delaware public policy school in early 2010, " Metropolitan Mass Transit Planning presentation " (link to presentation within). The concept of a multi-regional and multi-state transit network is outlined in " The meta-regional transit network " (2009).

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all.

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