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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. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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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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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. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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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. Another link. Many states including Maryland and Pennsylvania also have a local form of this.

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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. doi: 10.1108/DPM-08-2018-0263

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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)

See, for example, the press release, “FHFA Announces Increase in Guarantee Fees” (August 31, 2012), where the first paragraph says, “The changes to g-fee pricing represent a step toward encouraging greater participation in the mortgage market by private firms…” [link]. Also, the 0.10

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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.