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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But one group has managed to hold off the forces of gentrification — and keep growing — for almost two decades. Then the dancers, sculptors and jewelry-makers get the boot when “progress” arrives, and landlords can cash in by selling to builders or remodeling for a more upscale market.

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another aspect of the balkanized transit system in the DC area is that every jurisdiction has a different program for bus shelters--what Ivan Bennett, product design manager for the London bus program, calls "a lack of continuity." WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it starts with decent cultural planning: -- " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators ," 2018 The preeminent example is SEMAEST of Paris, although it deals primarily with retail uses. No reason the model can't be extended to arts and culture.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I argued it would have happened anyway. said "no, the Arena has had significant impact." The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live." I was too parochial. Look at all the people going to a San Francisco Giants baseball game, and taking transit. Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002.

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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). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me.

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December 2016 | Does Public Administration Want Diversity…Really? By Leisha DeHart Davis

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Note to fellow AWPA-ers: these comments provide a valuable opportunity for self-evaluation in 2018). The creation of Academic Women in Public Administration was viewed by some as positive, but others suspect self-serving motives and white feminism at play.