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Foresight

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Inspired by the events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years ago Francis Fukuyama wrote his treatise on The End of History (Fukuyama 1992). History, of course, continues to be made, both as events and as some form of human social development. One is that the shifting context pilots events. References Fukuyama, F.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. At an event yesterday, I asked and they estimated that probably 10% or less of glass is recycled in the area.

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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Over the years I've written about the hype about big data and "apps," making the point that there is plenty of "little data" and academic analysis of policy that is already being ignored, despite the richness it offers for improvement in policy and practice. -- " All the talk of e-government, digital government, and open source government is really (..)

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Three years of deferred circuit breaker taxes are due and payable if the taxpayer transfers the home to another owner or stops using it as their legal residence (either of which is termed a “disqualifying event”). Let’s work through an example of the circuit breaker math.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. Event space, Old Main Street Station, Richmond. WRT event planning, create and distribute an annual calendar of events.

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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. Besides the general TDM approach, utilize other methods to promote transit.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. They have branded special event transit service, provide service to certain airports, and the Port of Miami Cruise Terminal, etc. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly.