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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Partly what got me thinking about city-county consolidation--places like Indianapolis (1970), Knoxville, Macon-Bibb County, Georgia (2012), and what SF and Philadelphia did in the 1800s--was seeing mention of a Brookings Institution report about Pennsylvania c. Louis City and County (" St. They don't work well in changed circumstances.

2016

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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

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

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Operations Transportation Sanitation

From LAX to ONT: The Transfer of Ontario International Airport and its Economic Implications

The Lowe Down

MAY 14, 2023

In November 2016, ownership of ONT was returned to the Inland Empire from LA County. After a period of power struggle back and forth, it was decided that ownership of ONT would be returned to the Inland Empire, with the official transfer taking place in November 2016. The rankings have not changed since the acquisition.

2016

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. The park allows all community members to enjoy the space simultaneously. Seasonality. Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Campus Martius beach.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Events 2016 Press Release

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place.

2016

2016 Management 2012 2020

Grocery stores in cities: the failure of the "15 minute grocery store"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 17, 2023

They operate a number of regularly sized stores outside of Salt Lake City proper. and his wife, Kathie, announced in 2016 that they would bankroll the construction of a grocery store in the city’s East End. Lee's Marketplace was opened by a small supermarket group that is a member of the Associated Food Stores cooperative.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Press Release Development 2012

Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

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 operates Thursday-Sunday in two local business districts. Do a food fermentation operation. On site baking operations.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Development Management Events

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

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.

Transportation

Transportation 2017 2018 2019

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DC ," 2011, " Silver line reshaping commercial office market in Fairfax County ," 2015, and " Without the right planning "controls" you can't stop change: Loudoun County and rail service in Northern Virginia ," 2012). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before. Adding a Tysons tram system to that list.

Elected Officials

Elected Officials Transportation 2011 Sustainability

The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. Additionally, the GSEs did not commercially operate like efficient and competitive business organizations. However, F&F launched a major lobbying effort and successfully defeated the legislation in Congress.

2008

2008 Legislation Housing 2004

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

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In some cases, these foundations or charities are created and operated by private citizens. In other cases, they’re created directly by elected and administrative officials of government organizations, operating as an extension of government agencies yet they engage in fundraising, soliciting private contributions from willing citizen donors.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit 2017 Government Fundraising

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

MARCH 1, 2024

The Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). And if there is a lot of kid visitation, well kids don't spend money. They often bring their own food, etc. ( I can't think of a worse walk.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation 2014 Education Development

Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

In 2010 and 2012 I wrote about such initiatives for the Detroit Zoo (actually located in Oakland County) and the Detroit Institute of Arts, which were caught up in the city's bankruptcy. I don't think I was aware at the time of the Denver Scientific and Cultural Facilities District , which operates at a multicounty scale.

2010

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

Linda Hodges Gallery, whose owner is retiring, and CoCA, which will be operating online only for a while, are among a number of high-profile Pioneer Square galleries that have closed their brick-and-mortar spaces in recent years.

2016

2016 2017 2014 Economic Development

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)

MARCH 10, 2023

trillion in 2016, which at the time was almost twice the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and became the largest source of GSE profits. percent, which is what they received to cover their operating costs, losses, income taxes, and a return on the capital that supported the risk they were taking. Of the current 0.46

2008

2008 2014 2019 Press Release

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

One, it placed the companies into conservatorship, an obscure legal status in which they would continue to operate, but with their regulator, the FHFA, [3] in operational control of the companies in lieu of their stockholders and boards of directors. The Bush administration, therefore, did two things.

Legislation

Legislation 2008 2012 2019

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

JANUARY 18, 2024

I've mentioned this for years (" Social marketing and aberrant driving ," 2020, " When the car lobby encourages law breaking ," 2012), but only recently after some high profile deaths is the city addressing this (" Reckless drivers in spotlight as D.C. Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.

Transportation

Transportation 2010 2019 2014

Public Administration Today

Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

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From LAX to ONT: The Transfer of Ontario International Airport and its Economic Implications

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

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

Grocery stores in cities: the failure of the "15 minute grocery store"

Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

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

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

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

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

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

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

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