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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Use the monies to fund and expand transit, especially Metrorail within the city as discussed above and in various postings such as " More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core " (2016). And separating the Yellow and Green Lines too.

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

From roughly 2010 to 2016, GSE reform took the form of a search among these proposals to find a specific “something else” that could both (1) gather the broad political support needed for legislation to be passed in Congress, and (2) be workable in the very complex mortgage markets.

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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. a Bike Expo in association with the 5 Boro Ride, which had more than 100 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees in 2014.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Is there a way for such commercial and neighborhood revitalization and management programs to be developed and implemented at a scale that doesn't reach that of the groups that typify downtowns and large parks? I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place. Flickr photo by Chiara Coetzee.

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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. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program? Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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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.

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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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