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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Unfortunately, there are few examples of its implementation, as police departments did mostly "zero tolerance policing" calling it community policing. Broken windows successfully implemented on the NYC Subway in the early 1990s. communicate that it's okay to commit crime.

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Set the opening of the Purple Line as the deadline for the implementation of a full-fledged integrated Night Owl bus network for the DC metropolitan area. Ivan indicated that passengers do not just want information about where they are travelling from, but when they get there, they need the same consistently presented information.

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Technology: What, When and How to Adopt

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

He was later appointed Interim Fire Chief (2013-2014). Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), a position he assumed in March 2016 after serving the City of Los Angeles for thirty years. He was later appointed Interim Fire Chief (2013-2014).

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

BW never really got implemented, instead it was transmogrified into "zero tolerance policing" not community policing and improvement. -- " George Kelling, co-creator of the "Broken WIndows" thesis, dies " (2019) -- " The state of "broken windows" versus "problem oriented policing" strategies in 2016: Part 1, theory and practice ," 2016 -- " The state (..)

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020). This comes up in a letter to the editor to the Post (" Why I won’t take the Silver Line to Dulles ").

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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This paper examines the effects of UAC in the private rental market and finds that the ZIP Codes where UAC was initially rolled out (early UAC ZIP Codes) had higher rates of represented tenants and lower rates of executed warrants of eviction than ZIP Codes selected for UAC but prior to its implementation. Methodology.

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The first-year effects of Mexico’s soda tax: An interview with Barry Popkin, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health – Episode #108

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

In 2013, Mexican lawmakers passed an excise tax on sugary drinks of 1 peso (about 8 cents) per liter, which is about a 10 percent tax. A new study published in the British Medical Journal examines the effects on purchases of beverages in Mexico during the first year after implementation of the tax. It also passed a tax on junk food.