Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 17, 2024
The Baltimore Banner is an online media source, owned by Stewart Bainum, who created Choice Hotels and an assisted living group, and was an elected official. A Floodlight review of the content since the utility founded the Alabama News Center in 2015 shows it publishes overwhelmingly positive stories about the power company.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
But then I realized that's an affliction common to most of DC's elected officials, even her opponent David Catania (e.g., his stand on ticketing parents for a child's truancy or absence from school--see " Criminalizing truancy versus creating focused programs to address truant behavior ").
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 3, 2024
One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
Sometimes they're led by the elected official for that district. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. Sometimes they are in parks or commercial districts, or cover history, etc. -- improve sidewalks and street conditions along sidewalks.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Even though transit usage is much reduced in DC post-covid, I don't think DC elected officials understand how central transit is to the city's competitive advantage and identity. Nope, in 2015, plans to move forward were scuttled, seemingly forever (" Virginia Beach was right to reject light rail extension ," Norfolk Virginian-Pilot ).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Fifth, that activists and elected officials sure didn't understand how to be proactive (" The Silver Line WMATA story that WJLA-TV missed ," 2014). DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric.
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
JUNE 28, 2016
Last year NRC engaged at our 2015 conference (and is a sponsor of the 2016 conference). See this link for our full conference program! But don't just take our word for it. The National Research Center (NRC) has been a CPBB partner for many years now. And published a piece articulating exactly what they learned during the event.
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