Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

I wrote about New Carrollton in depth in 2014, where I suggested that Prince George's County create a center there, moving their government center to a Metrorail-connected location, and beginning the process of redeveloping the conurbation as a more walkable-connected-transit centric place. I hope they read it.)

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zencity

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Although not always mandatory, Zencity’s experience working with local government organizations across the U.S. Local governments are increasingly working to expand their recycling programs, promote resident engagement and knowledge, and innovate to combat climate change. How did recycling start?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. Schools with high income demographics tend to do much better than those with low income demographics. Special Funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

City/government revenues from the lease are minimal. 350,000 maximum annual lease payment. And revenue sharing agreements when revenues are higher rarely kick in, because the base was set not on average attendance, but on the teams highest attendance years.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 16, 2021

I first visited the affected area in 2014, having failed to gain a place on an earlier expedition that took place a year and a half after the disaster. The Japanese Government promised reconstruction in only seven years. In November 2019, on my second visit to Fukushima Dai'ichi, I stood in front of the wreckage of reactor no.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In a 2014 review of internet addiction, the authors considered how internet addiction affects our daily lives. appeared first on Open Access Government. Fear of being without your smartphone even has a name – this is known as nomophobia – which stands for NO MObile PHone PhoBIA.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. I note that GGW just wrote about this this week.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Michael Lewis has a good book, The Fifth Risk , on the investment by the federal government in the development of science and technology, like weather prediction systems and the work of federal laboratories. There are probably some I've missed. OTOH, there is also the story of Kariko Katalin at the University of Pennsylvania.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Launching the CSP with AWS CSS worked closely with AWS from the outset of the CSP project launch in 2014. Since 2019, issued security volume has stayed high while service level performance has increased and AWS run costs have decreased. Thisarea also includes the ability of IT to roll out new and updated services faster.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

This item is implicit in the original list of six in that you need an implementation organization separate from government to keep the focus, especially because government interest waxes and wanes depending on who gets elected and their desire to work on their priorities, not the long term priorities developed by previous administrations.

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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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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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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Anomie and shortage of disaster governance.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

million people were displaced from their homes, but the earthquake destroyed more than people and their homes: it dealt a near fatal blow to government. of monetary relief went to the Haitian Government, and yet that is exactly where responsibility for public services and safety lay. Haiti has long had a shortage of all three.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. Government has a bias for inaction. There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter. I started writing a response in the comments, but it was too long.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] Q1: What problem was the government trying to solve when it placed the two GSEs into conservatorship?

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

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