Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Because downtown D.C. Other areas too.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

My response was you don't develop such relationships in crisis, but when times are good, and hopefully, those relationships and funding streams can survive exogenous shocks. That money provides a base level of support independent of fare revenues and government appropriations. It's probably too little too late.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

To date, Council and Administration have developed a strategic plan and completed a 4E (efficient, effective, equitable and economical) review of business plan and budget processes. Costs associated with this effort will be used to develop reporting tools and software, determine service levels and expectations, and to hire dedicated staff.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

"Now integrated into its seventh consecutive year of budget development, PBB is the framework within which all budget decisions are made." 2017 PBB Outcomes Now integrated into its seventh consecutive year of budget development, PBB is the framework within which all budget decisions are made. increase over 2016.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

This plan serves as the foundation on which the county’s corporate and department business plans, and priority-based budgets are developed. In 2016, Strathcona County had one of the lowest municipal tax increases in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), a statutory board under the Ministry of Education (MOE), was formed in 2016 to promote a culture of lifelong learning in Singapore and strengthen the country’s ecosystem of industry-relevant training and adult education. Providing all Singaporeans with seamless access to skills development resources.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

At the beginning of 2015, over 80 communities across North America have implemented Priority Based Budgeting (PBB), impacting over 11 million citizens across the US and Canada. The City of Toledo has just launched its implementation of Priority Based Budgeting, with the development of its Program and Services Inventory.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

," 2017 -- " Crystal City Arlington as Amazon one-half of HQ2 | Part 3: Leveraging Amazon's entrance for complementary transit network improvements ," 2018 -- " Crystal City Arlington as Amazon one-half of HQ2 | Part 4: Pie in the Sky transit improvements ," 2018 -- " A "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for a statewide passenger railroad program (..)

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 29, 2023

When the land bank found the perfect property—a house at 13611 Kinsman Road—they negotiated to release a collateral lien on the house, rehabilitated it, and gifted the home to Gardner and the CCCC in 2015 to serve as their permanent headquarters. Source: Google Maps The same lot in 2016.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Over the past twenty years a set of institutionalized funding relationships developed in which nonprofit organizations in the forms of private philanthropic foundations and “friends of” charities formed and now raise increasingly large share of revenues to help pay for public services. Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Sixth, and belatedly, that the Silver Line taxed the system's infrastructure in ways that have made degradation of service quality standard practice (" More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core, " 2016). Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

From a PI blog entry in 2015 : The Navy Yard development is home to GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Outfitters, a Marriott and about 140 other companies. Another two million square feet is slated to be developed and the previous feasibility study estimated about 8,000 people would use rail service by 2045. About 13,000 people work there.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Unkempt areas aren't places where people want to live (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016). This reminds me that when Toronto did an urban grayfield development project in the 1970s, creating the St. People don't want to live in fear. cleanliness. Center cities can be pretty dirty.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Music in the American Wild ( webpage , Eastman School of Music) was a program where new music compositions were commissioned to play in 12 National Parks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the park system in 2016. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. Monuments that are controversial.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

trillion in 2016, which at the time was almost twice the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and became the largest source of GSE profits. 33 It was originally meant to be used solely inside conservatorship – and so developed without any public transparency as merely an internal matter between the FHFA and the GSEs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

WMATA has even more issues because if either Maryland or Virginia have Republican Governors, it makes it very difficult to develop consensus support for such a tax, because they see it, justifiably or not, as helping DC disproportionately. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. Right now, Virginia has a Republican Governor.

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