The Lowe Down

MAY 12, 2023

Article by Derik Suria & Meghna Pamula Air pollution is a serious public health concern. Between 1972 and 2018, the number of large wildfires in California increased by 784 percent, and the area burned increased by more than 1,200 percent (Environmental Market Solutions Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara). in 2011-2015 and 0.09

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening. Flickr photo. The Washington Post reports (" D.C.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Post has an article about how Virginia Congressman Don Beyer is getting a masters degree in machine learning so he can apply AI to government and creating better policy (" A 72-year-old congressman goes back to school, pursuing a degree in AI "). Positive deviance theory: Hope amidst failure.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

But in 2015, VA set up the Veterans Experience Office to begin to address the way veterans’ needs were met. In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. Agencies had their rules, and constituents had to navigate them to get the services they needed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. From the article : Metro rides are free after 5 p.m. Tuesday Officials suggest taking Metro to get to the Mall. Starting at 5 p.m.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In terms of overall waste reduction planning, it's essential to include all properties in a jurisdiction within planning (" More on zero waste practice (and DC) ," 2015). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard." WRT solid waste and recycling it's pretty much the same.

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A Library Writer's Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We invite articles and essays that interrogate any aspect of extraction in academic libraries and archives related to library policies and practices, library and educator labour, LIS theory and other theoretical traditions, LIS education, and more. Articles submitted for review must fit the journal’s Focus and Scope.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

The Boston Globe has an interesting article, " Gentrification is washing over America’s wealthiest cities. The article has an interesting discussion about how this came about. Transforming a building. " Now and There " by Faith Ninivaggi , 555 Columbus Avenue, Uphams Corner neighborhood, Boston.

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APRIL 19, 2023

That's why I have to laugh at the article in today's Post about USC, " D.C. From the article: District officials have spent months figuring out how to counter negative economic trends spurred by emptied offices downtown. Some schools have invested in nearby commercial districts, like Catholic University mentioned above.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: A damning, 72-page report the agency authored portrays a housing authority in disarray and at risk of defaulting on its agreement with the federal government. From the article: The U.S. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Performance dashboards.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Elizabeths campus ," 2018 Controversially, because the Park Service has more golf courses than demand, the Langston Golf Course could be redeveloped. This is worth $20 million per year off football based on a study for the Buffalo Bills, it could be more for other sports because of more events. Giants fans leave the MUNI headed for the park.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

From the article: In a news release sent out Wednesday, officials said that the organizations’ Boards of Directors will meet on May 1 to start “months-long discussions about how to efficiently provide, fund, and govern public transit.” It's about speed versus access.

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MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 17, 2024

As newspapers reduce staff, such articles are increasingly run as is, despite the potential slant. From the article: What’s happening in Alabama is an example of how special interests have taken advantage of the diminishing reach and influence of shrinking mainstream newsrooms in the US.

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GovLoop

JULY 3, 2023

MCE is designed to help users identify underserved communities and relies on four main datasets: Select demographic and socioeconomic statistics from the 2015-19 American Community Survey (ACS), which helps determine how $675 billion in federal and state funds get distributed each year.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Louis article (paragraphs reordered): Every aspect of operations was reexamined with an eye toward keeping passengers safe. After a series of violent crimes, leaders here took decisive action starting in 2018. Liverpool Echo photo. Louis also faced issues with rising crime and declining ridership that predated the pandemic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. Another link. s Black arts scene ," Post ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I guess that was an opening salvo for Mayor Bowser, as the Post ran an article today about her wanting to address this (" As D.C.’s Earlier in the week there was a not particularly enlightening oped by former DC Planning Director Andrew Trueblood suggesting a reconsideration of the Height Limit (" A monumentally modest change to D.C.’s

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

34] The CCF was later used, in 2018, as the basis for an initial proposal for a formal regulatory capital requirement, which included going out for public comment. 35] For full disclosure, I was a major participant in its development, especially in the earlier years of 2014 and 2015, and so am speaking from first-hand observation. [36]

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