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From Waste to Energy: How Urban Waste is Powering Our Cities

Reprogramming the City

The syngas can be further processed into electricity, heat, or transportation fuels (US Department of Energy, 2020). million gallons of low-carbon transportation fuels (Fulcrum BioEnergy, 2021). This reduces reliance on fossil fuels and supports the transition towards renewable energy sources (Arena, 2012).

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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

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., But they aren't organized into an overarching association, in a manner comparable to how Germany organizes regional transport associations to coordinate the planning and delivery of transit services.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Misunderstanding Uber, Taxi regulation and what we might call the "Overground Economy" ," 2013 -- " App based ride services and creative destruction and plain old destruction ," 2014 -- " The false promise of ride hailing as a pro-city transportation mode ," 2018 -- " What a terrible idea: deregulating taxi fares in DC for mobile-based hails (..)

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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. " It's next to a freeway.

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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " The Howard and Lincoln Theatres: run them like the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust/Playhouse Square Cleveland model ," 2012, and the discussion of "transformational projects action planning," " Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced? CDC,s can be such a tool. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning."

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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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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 2018, I wrote a piece about the attempt to extend the RFK campus lease, but at the behest of the "Washington" NFL team, which has been based in Suburban Prince George's County for a couple decades. -- " Yes, modify and extend the RFK Campus lease; No, don't do it for the Washington Redskins football team " The RFK campus is on the right.