Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

From the article: UW-Madison wants to reimagine and energize Library Mall in the heart of campus with stylish walkways, native plants, shade trees and splashing water. The lesson that I learned from the article about Boulder is that it isn't just about the design, and having lots of pedestrians, it's also about on-going management.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). An article about the aftermath in the Post , " Va. It was a shocking move. Governor Youngkin just sprung this on everybody.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

charlie shares with us an article by Edwin Heathcote, the architecture columnist for the Financial Times , " Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work? There is an article about how public schools are weak in customer service (" Survey: Majority of parents say schools’ customer service needs improvement ," K-12 Dive).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

From the article: In a first for the province — and believed to be unique in Canada — a “vertical school” will be built into the third floor of the project on Lake Shore Blvd. Toronto is building a school as part of a condominium project (" In a first for Ontario, a school in a condo is coming to Toronto’s waterfront ," Toronto Star ).

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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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. percent range for seven more years through 2021, as disclosed in each year’s annual FHFA G-fee report. percent to 0.49

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Assume Tina Tarheel is 67, earned $30,000 in 2021, and has lived in her home for 15 years. If Tina applies for the circuit breaker, her 2022 property taxes would be capped at 4% of her 2021 income because she falls under the elderly/disabled income limit of $31,900. Let’s work through an example of the circuit breaker math.

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Death and Taxes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I will also be presenting on this material at the 2021 North Carolina Local Government Budget Association’s Winter Conference and that presentation will be followed be a roundtable discussion of some folks around the state sharing their experience with creating and maintaining revenue manuals. And to the back burner it goes.

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