Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Unkempt areas aren't places where people want to live (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016). People don't want to live in fear. cleanliness. Center cities can be pretty dirty. schools (and daycare). are topics I've blogged about over the years. just east of Yonge St., the Star has learned.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. Government has a bias for inaction. There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter. I started writing a response in the comments, but it was too long.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

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 Greater Salt Lake, governments mostly don't do glass recycling directly.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

the steady employment engine of the federal government Heathcote captures the issues well. " Since I got involved in urban revitalization I argued that DC had five competitive advantages: 1. historic architecture 2. historicity and identity (the nexus of people, historic architecture, and urban design) 4.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

That’s because both are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). The GSE Background Over a century ago, Congress began creating public-private hybrid corporations known as government-sponsored enterprises. government, allowing them to borrow at near-Treasury rates, lower than any regular private sector company or bank could.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

The project took six years to complete, and the station opened in 2012, with full service in 2013. Union Station railyard with MARC commuter train in the foreground. As part of the redevelopment plan, the U4 line was extended by about 4/10 miles with the addition of the HafenCity University station (the line has since been further extended).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

To me, government is more about denying, saying no. From " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC ": Government has a bias for inaction*. A key point in the iterative improvement of my writings on Vision Zero is focusing initiatives in terms of the "6 E's" of sustainable mobility planning (" Updating Vision Zero approaches ," 2016).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. It's like, how good do you think DC government as an entity is at marketing now? But now many of these elements have been consolidated into EM.

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