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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But that message isn’t getting through to our local government. The data reflect what we already know: When people’s basic need for a safe, stable home is met, it decreases violence in our neighborhoods. As we talked to close to 200 Grays Ferry residents, the stories poured in.

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Chevron Deference Does Not Always Result in Support for the Government's Position

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

19-1619, 2021 WL 232554 (4th Cir. Amaya , 2021 WL 232554, at *1. 2014) (considering proposed PSG of "former members of the Mara 18 gang in El Salvador who have renounced their gang membership"), it was appropriate to adhere to the principles of Chevron deference. Amaya , 2021 WL 232554, at *4. In Amaya v. Rosen , No.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” But during his decade-plus as King County executive, lifelong West Seattleite Dow Constantine has been the local music and arts community’s biggest champion in local government.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Launching the CSP with AWS CSS worked closely with AWS from the outset of the CSP project launch in 2014. In 2016, CSS initially designed the CSP to run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as a traditional server-based architecture within a single AWS Region.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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. For example, in the 2014 planning cycle, the statewide target for housing growth was one million units.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Use the monies to fund and expand transit, especially Metrorail within the city as discussed above and in various postings such as " More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core " (2016). And separating the Yellow and Green Lines too.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. cuts speed limit to 20 mph to curb pedestrian deaths: a step forward but not enough | New thoughts on a comprehensive Vision Zero agenda ," 2020 In " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC " (2021) I made these points: 1. It's a good letter.