Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

-- article Duh. Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012 It doesn't need to take 60 years. Very little such assistance is provided. Therefore, people don't bike. I do have a piece on this, " Revisiting assistance programs to get people biking: 18 programs." But it does need to be purposive.

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MARCH 7, 2024

There is a letter to the editor in the Post " Save an endangered species: The American department store ," responding to the article " Macy's and other department stores are an endangered species ," opining about the difference between department stores in European cities like London and Paris.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012 It comes up again because according to the Washington Post (" New Capital Crescent Trail tunnel could be delayed as costs grow "), now the cost of a tunnel is over $80 million. million, is too expensive.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This is in response to this Washington Post article, " Purple Line study: Without help, light-rail line will bring gentrification." The second biggest thing I learned was the need for focused and effective implementation organizations. CDC,s can be such a tool. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

From the first article: In collaboration with Drury University's Art of Space, led by assistant professor Gerard Nadeau, the museum is erecting the outdoor House of Art(s) on the northwest corner of the museum's grounds. Again, I think this is community building. But that isn't revitalization, and again ikely that's not a goal of the museum.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I guess that was an opening salvo for Mayor Bowser, as the Post ran an article today about her wanting to address this (" As D.C.’s Earlier in the week there was a not particularly enlightening oped by former DC Planning Director Andrew Trueblood suggesting a reconsideration of the Height Limit (" A monumentally modest change to D.C.’s

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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

MAY 13, 2024

WRT bus service improvement see: -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 -- " Will buses ever be cool? San Francisco Bay overnight transit map. And with that I had to laugh. And with that I had to laugh.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 11, 2023

Interestingly, the article discusses the back and forth between the community and the development group on their provision of various community benefits, which the community says has been laggard. General discussion about the progress of the redevelopment in dealing with community development concerns.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 22, 2024

That was all about a $53 million embezzlement that occurred over many years by the Dixon, Illinois comptroller, who worked in that small city (population currently about 15,000) from 1983 until her indictment in 2012. Apparently, no town is too small to be hit by corruption. Some people who have not been in a bigger city have this shield. ‘Oh,

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. You can read the full article here.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Article By Noah Hendelman. Since 2012, a majority of California citizens have voted by mail in US presidential elections, and most California counties offer a mix of in-person and mail-in voting options to cast one’s ballot. For instance, at a given level of mail-in voting, turnout was highest in 2008 and far lower in 2016 and 2012.

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

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Caption: see below There is an article a few months ago in the Baltimore Sun , " Maryland transportation officials ask for public comment on potential transit routes from Towson to Baltimore ," that planners are suggesting that Towson be served directly by light rail.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

3 The release of the FHFA report has also sparked a flurry of articles, op-eds, and think tank reports either supporting or countering some or all the recommendations. This two-part article argues that the root cause of their need for reform is a fundamental flaw in Congress’ design of GSEs.

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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

JUNE 19, 2023

From the article: Meanwhile, a few hundred feet away, Pioneer Square mainstays Linda Hodges Gallery and the Center on Contemporary Art are celebrating a different milestone: their last First Thursday Art Walk. Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. The reason for mentioning this example is part of my response to an article that appeared in Times Higher Education (THE 2019).

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The Lowe Down

MAY 14, 2023

Article by Abizer Mamnoon and Anahitha Gopikumar Ontario Airport (ONT), located east of downtown Ontario in San Bernardino County, is the geographically closest airport to the Claremont Colleges. Between 2012 and the acquisition, John Wayne rose to become dominant in international flights compared to ONT, Long Beach, and Bob Hope.

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Article by Julia Garbee. The suspension rate data and juvenile imprisonment data were merged by county and year, adjusting the imprisonment year so that it aligned with suspension rates academic year (2012 became 2011-12). A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines.

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 5, 2022

Article by Nicolas De Mello. births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44; in 2012, the rate was 63.0 The article contributes to the line of research on recessions and birth rates by constructing a novel dataset of 150 countries and using an event study analysis to explore how fertility rates are impacted by the trough of recessions.

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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 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. Governor Youngkin just sprung this on everybody. Let alone vote on it.

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

2012, April). The Detroit bankruptcy case stirs up two areas in the constitution that are particularly cumbersome to interpret thus making the Supreme Court the last pass as parties find loopholes and reasonable doubt in lower courts. Sources: Anonymous. Headlee Rollback and Headlee Override. Retrieved from [link]. 2013, July 18).

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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

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. Proposed Gatineau-Ottawa transit loop.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Article II, Section 24 of the state constitution excludes from the definition of a local act any “any bill to enact a general law classified by population or other criteria.” Article V, Section 2 of the state constitution requires that exclusions “shall be made by general law uniformly applicable in every county.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

The Detroit News has an article, " 2 Detroit museums seek same financial lifeline DIA, zoo got ," about how two cultural institutions based in Detroit, but serving the metropolitan area, The Charles H. From the article: Democrat Rep. Brooks Patterson (" The rise of Oakland County is built on Detroit's Fall ") died).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations. it's no wonder I have written a lot about crime.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." DC did that in 2009. increase in violent crimes. In the early 2000s!

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. Social Media in the United States. Sustainability Factors or Lack Thereof.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

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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MAY 10, 2024

From the article: Cache Valley residents are being invited to attend a transportation safety summit at the Logan Library on Thursday, May 16. hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post And because we don't provide actionable information and the structures to address the problem.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

. -- " Two train/regional transit ideas: Part 1 | Amtrak should acquire Greyhound ," 2021 The fifth is writing on bus transit. -- " Making bus transit service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 --" Will buses ever be cool? They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018.

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