Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 20, 2024
According to the Washington Informer article, " DC's new plan to slash its trash ," DC is adding ten years, one decade more, to its waste diversion goal, from 2030 to 2040 That's 16 years!!!!!!!!!! I've written about DC's waste practices for years (" More on zero waste practice and DC ," 2015).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Later, when she was our Councilmember, I complained that she was unable to draw out the need for structural solutions from the information stream that comprised her heralded "constituent services" (never thought they were transformational anyway).
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AWS Public Sector Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The country has poor internet connectivity in remote places, so the team worked with MOSIP and vendors to engineer special field kits that let enrollment officers travel door-to-door to collect people’s information and then upload the data into the system in batches when they have connectivity.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
APRIL 9, 2020
In this context, I salute the thoughtful work of Christopher Gomez, Dierdre Hart and JC Gaillard (Gomez and Hart 2013, Gaillard and Gomez 2015) on the phenomenon of the "disaster gold rush". Major disasters usually lead to a substantial increase in information flow. Gomez 2015. This also exists outside the academic field.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
Arlington County requires transportation information kiosks for multiunit and public buildings, like libraries. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. Below: Roy Lichtenstein did do a painting of VW microbuses. Car sharing.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
For frequent, new and visiting customers, we are piloting new signage, beginning with putting service information at street level at Metro Center. In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Facilitating access to parks for pedestrians and bicyclists, and adding transit services as appropriate (" A gap in planning across agencies: Prioritizing park access for pedestrians, bicyclists and transit users compared to motor vehicle access ," 2015). This is a problem for cities especially, and DC.
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