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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the presentation (" The Sign Design Society Event: Defining a City ," designworkplan) by Ivan Bennett, Design Manger for London Buses: One reason other systems have failed is the lack of continuity. This has been discussed in depth here, " Will buses ever be cool? Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model."

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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many small towns have decent quality of life because of the presence of small colleges, their economic and social capital impact, the offering of special events that are attractors, etc. For example, Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia has a summer theater festival. Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In last week's piece on the opening of the second phase of the Silver Line (" Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week "), and in the original piece ("" Using the Silver Line as the priming event, what would a transit network improvement program look like for NoVA? ") I never did add a similar point.

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But what earns him the most press is the work he oversees estimating the economic impact of marquee sporting events on their host cities. Especially when many might attend special event dinners by sponsors, etc. Sports Events Tourism. But events tourism is still an important element of community identity building and marketing.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. Field 2018). and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). Putting messages on the area garbage trucks, sponsoring NPR, promoting events, etc.

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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In 2016, the Expanded Legal Services (ELS) pilot program launched with the aim of providing legal representation for tenants living within 10 ZIP Codes with household incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty line. As of 2021, the City has expanded UAC citywide. Methodology.

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