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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. In serious TDM programs there are people ready to help individual clients make the shift.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great.

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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. The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. Lots of deaths.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers. Some of these questions are normative.

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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," 2018 As urban neighborhoods become more desirable at the scale of the metropolitan residential choice landscape , prices will go up, and people who had been able to afford to live there will be outbid.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Researchers have identified four goals [vii] : secure land occupation, sufficient and resilient livelihoods, robust and resilient ecosystems, and adequate disaster risk and emergency management. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. Krimgold (eds) 2015. Disaster Prevention and Management 28(3): 371-385. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii]

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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

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Another link.