DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 9, 2023
And there is a lot of work on "violence interruption." I go back and forth about it, but there is some potential there.
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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
AUGUST 11, 2022
And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."
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Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM.
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Andy Byford. I was surprised to see that Andy Byford has stepped down as CEO of Transport for London, as it was his dream job (" Ex-NYC subways chief Andy Byford quits London gig, plans return to US ," New York Post ).
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
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A way to do this would be to organize transport associations in South Florida, Orlando, and Tampa, to coordinate transit services. It may be the best "in real life" example of the point I make about linking new infrastructure with complementary improvements across the transit network. There aren't plans to extend north up to Jacksonville.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
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They aren't coordinated or leveraged very well. Maybe it was in stasis under Mayor Gray.) Cities like Greensboro or Portland or Spokane have to be more innovative because they have fewer opportunities. DC has plenty of assets. And that's where the local government planning functions have opportunities.
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