Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. That money provides a base level of support independent of fare revenues and government appropriations. It's probably too little too late.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 14, 2022

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics. The group organized in 2013 to try to prevent the kind of displacement that has traditionally followed many Metro stations and new transit lines across the country.

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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 "). Like my frustration with DC Government.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

Sometimes a local government may make grants to organizations in this space that are nonprofits, but the groups are generally a mix of for profits and nonprofits. In Greater Salt Lake, governments mostly don't do glass recycling directly. And it's not particularly systematic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And that's where the local government planning functions have opportunities. DC needs to be more innovative to be able to develop its economy semi-independently of the federal government, which was slow and steady and growing for decades, but now no longer is, especially with the impact of what is now work from home post covid.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

The project took six years to complete, and the station opened in 2012, with full service in 2013. As part of the redevelopment plan, the U4 line was extended by about 4/10 miles with the addition of the HafenCity University station (the line has since been further extended). Conclusion. It's been 26 years.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We are excited to announce that we are bringing Universal Print to government organizations with the general availability of Universal Print in GCC/GCC High. government organizations. Microsoft 365 Government Community Call Join Jay Leask and other members of the Government Community live on LinkedIn!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

To me, government is more about denying, saying no. From " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC ": Government has a bias for inaction*. I saw that in my 10 or 12 years as academic leader here at the College of Engineering.” I joked that under the Trump Administration, Brand America became: Can't Do. It varies depending on the mayor.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The Court justified Feres on policy grounds, primarily due to the unique federal character of the relationship between the government and Armed Services personnel and already available federal remedies or compensation similar to workers' compensation relief in the civilian sector. at 143; see also United States v. United States , 733 F.3d

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Democracy is made up of factors such as voting rights, freedom of the governed, and minority rights. Drawing on these data in the period between 2013 and 2018, it appears that there is not a strong correlation between income inequality and democratic backsliding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Buildings are envelopes. -- " More thoughts on suburban hipness (it's really about commercial hipness generally, not urban vs. suburban) ," 2013 -- " BTMFBA Chronicles: Seattle coffee shop raises money to buy its building ," 2018 This came up in DC many years ago. There are two problems.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. The increased targets led to changes in behavior from local governments, too. Kim, UC Irvine.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Interesting that the federal government is on the verge of shutting down (" US government shutdown: What is it and who would be affected? ," Reuters), which means that parks and open lands close too. They remained open during the 2018-2019 shutdown, through restrooms and information desks were closed and waste disposal was halted.

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