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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

Entries more than doubled from the inaugural 2022 edition, with 334 nominations from 63 countries across six continents. This blog post highlights the 2023 awardees. In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs.

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

This new book will be published in fall 2023 for the Innovations in Information Literacy series edited by Trudi E. First drafts of the completed chapters (20-25 pages) will be due on Friday, December 2, 2022. Final drafts will be due by Friday, April 28, 2023. Final drafts will be due by Friday, April 28, 2023.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it. 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.

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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

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Photo of Lollapalooza 2022. Note that in retrospect I should have published this piece before the public art piece, " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Five | Planning for Public Art as an element of park facilities ," because that blog entry does not address controversy. Destination events and problems. Wall art, Dig the City.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Photo of Lollapalooza 2022. Note that in retrospect I should have published this piece before the public art piece, " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Five | Planning for Public Art as an element of park facilities ," because that blog entry does not address controversy. Destination events and problems. Wall art, Dig the City.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

So a blog entry is better. Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety.