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Flyer, Park City (Utah) Community Events for September 2022

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The City of Salt Lake uses yard signs, banners at parks, and for some issues, like budget hearings flyers, to get the word out, along with postings on NextDoor and Reddit, Twitter feeds, etc. But in communities where most people get around by car, that isn't a particularly good method. Yard signs definitely need to be added to the mix.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. Special Funding. Individual schools need a program to systematically build relationships with their neighborhood.

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It opened in 2001 and was completed in 2011, serving Hudson County only, and a recent proposal to finally extend it to Bergen has been further delayed (" Three decades later, the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line still has no Bergen spur. Another one is the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, which doesn't include Bergen County.

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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

Funny of course, because this is driven by the financial pressures faced by WMATA foremost (" Facing massive budget shortfall, Metro releases budget proposal that slashes service and increases fares ") but also other area transit providers, who've lost lots of riders in response to work from home. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011).

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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)

The FHFA then indicated that it ended this delay and began to employ the newer, higher capital requirement approach beginning in 2022. Individual GSE public financial disclosures do, however, indicate there may have been a modest increase during 2022 (i.e., What about the average G-fee in 2022? percent to 0.49

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And cities have limited budgets and many priorities. Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s The challenge will be to get disorder under control.