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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

The key is to constantly be focused and planning and forward looking. -- " HBCUs and the city: Relocating Cheyney University to Philadelphia? ," 2021 -- " Howard University announces wide ranging building program ," 2022 (Note, not saying HU is forward thinking. They've had a lot of problems)

Economic Development

Economic Development 2015 2014 Education

Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. A list of the full citations of the articles referenced can be found at the end of this post. Meehan, 2014). 2 (2014): 113-133. 3 (2015): 349-371.

2010

2010 Housing 2015 2011

Revisiting New Carrollton and the opportunity of transit oriented development: New train hall to be built at transit hub

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.) And it is a part of #12 in the action points list in the 2014 piece. I hope they read it.)

Development

Development 2014 Transportation 2008

Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Although Guardian articles show how minimal the use is of a typical golf course in a good day, fewer than 150 patrons (" Building houses on Britain’s vast, exclusive golf courses makes sense for everyone – even golfers ," " London golf courses could provide homes for 300,000 people, study says "). October 24, 2002.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation 2014 Development Events

It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article, " Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods pay the price for abandoned and decrepit homes ," about how Pittsburgh's lower income neighborhoods suffer from serious housing disinvestment. Purposeful neighborhood revitalization. Louis: -- " St. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations " -- " St.

Housing

Housing Community Development 2014 Magazine

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

2009

2009 2015 2016 2017

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " Route 7 BRT proposal communicates the reality that the DC area doesn't adequately conduct transportation planning at the metropolitan-scale ," 2016 -- " Reviving DC area bus service: and a counterpoint to the recent Washington City Paper article ," 2019 7.

Transportation

Transportation Coordinator 2011 2006

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal. NYC sponsors(ed?)

Transportation

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing

Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

Transportation

Transportation 2017 2018 2019

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

MARCH 1, 2024

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. But even before that I went back and forth on it. DC invests, half heartedly in people, not in place. Another link.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation 2014 Education Development

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before. Proposed Gatineau-Ottawa transit loop.

Elected Officials

Elected Officials Transportation 2011 Sustainability

Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

From the article: Cache Valley residents are being invited to attend a transportation safety summit at the Logan Library on Thursday, May 16. hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post And because we don't provide actionable information and the structures to address the problem.

2014

2014 2016 Transportation 2019

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

2008

2008 2014 2019 Press Release

Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I guess that was an opening salvo for Mayor Bowser, as the Post ran an article today about her wanting to address this (" As D.C.’s Earlier in the week there was a not particularly enlightening oped by former DC Planning Director Andrew Trueblood suggesting a reconsideration of the Height Limit (" A monumentally modest change to D.C.’s

Economic Development

Economic Development 2012 Development 2014

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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset

Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

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Revisiting New Carrollton and the opportunity of transit oriented development: New train hall to be built at transit hub

Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

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

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

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

Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

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