Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C.

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

When Justin Davis joined the BMV in 2017 as Contact Center Director, the employee attrition rate there was almost 200% per year, while customer satisfaction ratings were sinking. ” This article appears in “ Improving Customer Experience: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide.”

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Public Administration Associates

AUGUST 6, 2018

Robert Wright in an influential article in WIRED Magazine (10/8/2017) entitled “How Mindfulness Meditation Can Save America”, called this mindfulness as something we desperately need in our society and workplaces and “will make us less inclined to embrace and hand on to that “enemy” vide when it surfaces”.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

From the article: NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES It's not clear how the United States' 63 national parks would be affected. They remained open during the 2018-2019 shutdown, through restrooms and information desks were closed and waste disposal was halted. ," Reuters), which means that parks and open lands close too.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The complexities noted here are compounded by the fact that tremendous growth and affordable housing needs are in urban areas, while the vast majority of this type of housing is found in rural areas (see the great maps on housing shortage and surplus found in this recent New York Times article ).

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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

JANUARY 23, 2023

I just came across some articles in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from last year, that are quite amazing on this topic. Interestingly, in 2018, feeling inadequately appreciated, the Penguins (hockey), Pirates (baseball), and Steelers (football) commissioned an economic impact not unlike the one performed for Salt Lake's NBA All Star Game.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This comes up because of the Chicago Sun-Times article, " City’s test of additional dwelling units finds most takers in gentrified wards." From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin? State Center; Park Heights; etc.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

An article in the Philadelphia Inquire r makes the point that the "fashion" initiative had no legs because of white flight and a change in the industry in terms of fast fashion (" White flight and fast fashion meant Market Street never got the attention it deserved. billion arena in Center City "). Could the 76ers change that? ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown revitalization: the Portland State story and more ," 2014 -- " Better2016 (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This is in response to this Washington Post article, " Purple Line study: Without help, light-rail line will bring gentrification." Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. . -- " Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced? s Black arts scene ," Post ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

From the article: Fare evasion has worsened during the pandemic and is a visible reminder to riders of revenue Metro is not collecting — even as the agency calls on regional leaders to help with financial woes. Council to decriminalize fare evasion in 2018. From the article: Things are falling apart. Or they’re not there at all.

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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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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 4, 2022

Article by Kara Hagler. This article seeks to understand whether and to what extent the mode of instruction influenced this observed decline in public school enrollment and also considers politics’ role in this decline. . COVID-19 and the Underlying Political Impact on the Public Education System.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

charlie shares with us an article by Edwin Heathcote, the architecture columnist for the Financial Times , " Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work? There is an article about how public schools are weak in customer service (" Survey: Majority of parents say schools’ customer service needs improvement ," K-12 Dive).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The article discusses how the Regional Transit Service in Rochester New York developed "partnership" funding agreements with schools, colleges, and businesses to provide financial support beyond farebox revenue, to support mutual agreed upon objectives. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MARCH 12, 2018

The first class, which kicked off in October 2017, included 25 employees from different agencies within HHS and with different levels of knowledge about using data. Additional resource: A recent FedScoop article discusses Will Yang’s reflections on the first cohort of the CoLab [ click here ]. Participants applied […]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times. We live in divided, short-sighted times. Transformative projects like TransMilenio require long-term “cathedral thinking.”

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

14 A separate calculation by the Urban Institute, an MH supporter, from 2018 claims manufactured homes are 35 to 47 percent cheaper per square foot than site-built homes. without any qualification as to whether the underlying land is owned or rented), and how the evidence shows that, based on data from 1995 to 2018, it appreciated at 3.4

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Social Pinpoint

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It has even been revealed that community opposition has contributed to the delay or cancellation of more than $30 billion worth of infrastructure projects nationally in the decade to 2017. The proportion of which stakeholder pressure has played a role in project delay also rose from 76 percent of instances in 2018 to 80 percent in 2020.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

There is an article at Building Salt Lake, " Why isn’t Utah Transit Authority supporting the Rio Grande Plan? ," opining about why the Utah Transit Authority isn't all in on the concept of reviving Rio Grande Station as the "central station" for Downtown railroad and transit service.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

This would be, in essence, an unwinding of the ERCF and a return to approximately the CCF that was officially in place from 2017 to 2019 for setting the average G-fee. 6] It was officially adopted in 2017. [7] 26] It was only officially adopted in 2017, but in practical terms began to be partially used as far back as 2014. [27]

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