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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

These firms evaded regulation, but were able to mobilize their customers as advocates and pay for campaigns to support what they were doing, making it difficult for elected and appointed officials to challenge their narrative. (If Guardian has many stories based on the leaked documents. -- " The Uber Files ".

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One problem in public space management is the desire to be unique | Does San Francisco really needs its own $20,000 trash can

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Flickr photo by Elvert Barnes of a trash can in Times Square, branded with a public art campaign addressing harassment of Asian Americans. This is also an issue with transit systems and their heavy rail cars.

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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

Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. But the district is well organized, and successfully campaigned for a more directly accessible transit station as part of a new line being developed to serve their area.

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

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Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014. Not only had the popular campaign for good government caused the downfall of a pro-Russian regime; it was also undermining Mr Putin’s favoured technique for suborning Ukrainian politicians and, worse, it was creating an alarming example of successful reform that might inspire his own citizens.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Campaigns, especially focused on workers and the multiunit buildings, are in order. a Bike Expo in association with the 5 Boro Ride, which had more than 100 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees in 2014. I think a Roy Lichtenstein influenced livery, or the Multiplicity branding from Luxembourg would work. Above: Multiplicity bus.