Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The academic literature has tended to not differentiate between hard and soft infrastructure, but instead focuses on the definition of types of facilities, focusing on differences in type of space and programming. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Cultural infrastructure is both hard and soft.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

But the city has never developed the capacity to be particularly good at that, and definitely the energy to revitalize the communities in the Anacostia River community has been moribund ever since, which has been about 15 years. What a waste. A great example is the German International Building Exposition (IBA).

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Community', a word apparently absorbed into the English language from French after the Norman invasion, is the subject of numerous definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. ordinary people).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal. a Bike Expo in association with the 5 Boro Ride, which had more than 100 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees in 2014. The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. NYC sponsors(ed?) The TMD should sponsor at least two.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When I got my job in 2014, there were 208 tenure-track Spanish positions advertised ; in 2022 there were only 44. That year the Modern Languages Association Job List, the source for job seekers who wanted to be professors of English or (in my case) “Other Languages,” experienced a dramatic downturn in the number of positions advertised.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Safety on transit definitely is top of mind for many potential riders, especially those people predisposed against mass transit--hence the rise of ride hailing (Uber, Lyft) which on a per trip basis is much more expensive, but more convenient as it usually is a point to point trip.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

The ten-year average from 2014 to 2023 was 6.4 14] This quantitative definition of “material” is commonly used in public company reporting matters. [15] 5] See National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2023 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers. Behind a paywall.) A non-paywalled summary can be found at: [link].

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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. 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. So a blog entry is better.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

It is important to clearly state that the analysis in this article is based on the economic reality that if a loan does not have an interest rate that is appropriately risk-adjusted for its creditworthiness, then by definition there will be cross-subsidies in operation, even if that is not overtly stated.

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