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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I argue this was because the DC side was full of hubris--we have the city's interests at the foremost they intimated, and because they failed to think in the slightest in how to make the argument about how the current residents would benefit. Social urbanism and equity planning.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Intra-district shuttle systems Item # 5 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 2: Program items 1 - 9 ," discusses how to implement an integrated parking-shuttle system in Silver Spring, Maryland. Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. The barriers to environmental sustainability in post-disaster settings: a case study of transitional shelter implementation in Haiti. Krimgold (eds) 2015. The effects of stabilisation on humanitarian action in Haiti. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii] Haiti After the Earthquake. iii] Abrahams, D.

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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)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.