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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise. Planning and advocacy. Maybe they could do an exciting one for 2100 South.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Or is it just a case, in a highly politicized industry, of a politically convenient advocacy rationale to justify not increasing G-fees? During much of conservatorship (specifically 2012 to 2019), strangely, capital was depleted by design. But is this argument valid? Also, the 0.10 6] It was officially adopted in 2017. [7]

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