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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's provocative and worth reading, although maybe not relevant to the murder and gun problems. -- " The opportunity to rearticulate public safety delivery keeps being presented: Rochester New York " (2021) There is the broken windows approach. -- " Broken windows/collective efficacy: Baltimore; Newark; Grand Junction, Colorado; Pittsburgh; Albany (..)

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Districts are adept at outbound communications but have struggled to manage inbound messages as communications channels expanded beyond phone calls and mail to include texts and emails that can be sent around the clock, the report said. In short, cities are going to have to double down on urban design, placemaking, fun, and co-location.

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Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In DC, for awhile I was a Main Street manager in the Brookland neighborhood, which is home to Catholic University, Trinity Washington University and near Howard University, and I touted the potential of student spending as an element of commercial district revitalization. 1 in 2021 ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

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Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) , CSS manages $6.4 The decision to develop and host the CSP in the AWS Cloud put CSS among the first enterprises to adopt the cloud and build and manage one of the first mission-critical cloud-native applications.

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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

In 2014, I visited Hamburg, Germany which has an amazingly integrated transit system with multiple modes--train, subway, bus, ferry--reaching hundreds of miles into two adjoining states. I note that GGW just wrote about this this week. Hamburg's transport association is the model. German VV as the model for DC.

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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

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St.