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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

4, Will Employ 600 People ," WAMU/NPR, 2013): Georgia Avenue NW Fort Totten NE 50 New Jersey Avenue NW The store on New York Avenue never came to be. Sadly," of the three it has the best building, a traditional design mixed use style that fits in with nearby buildings including the Government Printing Office. To Open Dec.

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Foresight

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

All of these problems have at their root a lack of foresight and an inability to create stable global governance, as well, of course, as simple bad behaviour by national leaders. As an example, consider the impact of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear release in Japan in 2011 on nuclear energy policy in other countries (Wittneben 2012,Kim et al.

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Insights from nearly a decade of CountyStat: An interview with Dave Gottesman, CountyStat Manager, Montgomery County, Maryland – Episode #173

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Its reputation for results-focused government continues today under County Executive Marc Elrich, who has been in that role since 2018. He’s been the CountyStat manager since 2012. Dave was previously on the podcast in 2013. Montgomery County, located just north of Washington D.C. To learn more about the […]

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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics. The group organized in 2013 to try to prevent the kind of displacement that has traditionally followed many Metro stations and new transit lines across the country.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Basically, I'm interested in continuous process improvement and iterative learning (" Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory ," 2023) applied to government and social program improvement.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite.

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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Post has an article about how Virginia Congressman Don Beyer is getting a masters degree in machine learning so he can apply AI to government and creating better policy (" A 72-year-old congressman goes back to school, pursuing a degree in AI "). Like my frustration with DC Government.

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