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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 "). Positive deviance theory: Hope amidst failure.

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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. This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Boston Globe has an interesting article, " Gentrification is washing over America’s wealthiest cities. The article has an interesting discussion about how this came about. Transforming a building. " Now and There " by Faith Ninivaggi , 555 Columbus Avenue, Uphams Corner neighborhood, Boston.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In turn that would help to spur development of the Pepco power plant site, which stopped producing electricity in 2012, and Benning Road further east, and Minnesota Avenue. Other areas too.) Giants fans leave the MUNI headed for the park. October 24, 2002.

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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

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Article by Julia Garbee. In our analysis, we used total suspension rates by county from the California Department of Education for academic years 2011-12 through 2015-16. A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal. Maybe they could do an exciting one for 2100 South.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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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.