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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

From the article: In a news release sent out Wednesday, officials said that the organizations’ Boards of Directors will meet on May 1 to start “months-long discussions about how to efficiently provide, fund, and govern public transit.” inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). This concept eludes almost everyone who writes about transit.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

A list of the full citations of the articles referenced can be found at the end of this post. One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011). 3 (2019): 795-817.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

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This Seattle Times article, " Is West Seattle the rock ’n’ roll capital of Seattle? ," illustrates those ideas--record stores, clubs, artists living there, record labels, the KEXP-FM rock radio station, practice spaces, recording studios, music education programs in Seattle Public Schools, etc., Kylie Cooper / The Seattle Times).

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How to Lay a Solid Foundation for Modernizations

GovLoop

Since the cloud-first policy came out in 2011, the federal government has pushed for the use of cloud technologies as a foundation to IT modernization. This article is an excerpt from GovLoop’s guide entitled “ Your Guide to Becoming an Adaptive Agency.”. But cloud alone is not a silver bullet. Download the guide. Favorite.

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School closure and consolidation planning needs to focus on integration planning at the outset as a separate process

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Of course such practice is complicated by politics, but also labor contracts with teachers and other personnel, and that sense of winners and losers, In the article, they really tried to move away from the idea of winning and losing.

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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

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From the article: The past few months have been tough for many passengers using bus stations and curbside spots across the country. I have written about this from time to time, including problems with the set up at DC's Union Station, by comparing it to Toronto and Montreal (" Union Station bus terminal, DC ," 2011).

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

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Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019). and other cities take notice ," Seattle Times ).

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