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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

When I first saw coverage I thought, "what about the 2017" initiative, although granted it was before covid. Provide integrated bus arrival and departure information screens at Metrorail, Light Rail, and MARC stations. People need information near their homes and local areas, not just in the centre of the city.

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Louisville Courier-Journal mobile newsroom initiative and Salt Lake Tribune Innovations Lab

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wouldn't argue that it's absolutely scintillating, but the SLT , which is now a nonprofit, does focus on serious issues that the Mormon Church owned paper, the Deseret News , does not, from police killings, to misuse of police information by Brigham Young University, to development issues, the Great Salt Lake, the water crisis and drought, etc.

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Tax incentive programs underfund schools

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Between 2017 and 2023, those schools lost $237.3 A 2021 review of 2,498 financial statements from schools across 27 states revealed that in 2019 at least $2.4 A 2021 review of 2,498 financial statements from schools across 27 states revealed that in 2019 at least $2.4 That city is hardly an anomaly.

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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)

Access to free legal services for low-income tenants facing eviction has expanded across many jurisdictions, with New York City as the first to enact universal access to counsel (UAC) in 2017. UAC began with the ELS program and, in August 2017, it was expanded to phase-in legal services for all income-qualified tenants facing eviction.

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Big omission in blog series on advance hospital/health and wellness planning, public health planning: addiction services

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the first article: Alcohol killed 1,547 people statewide in 2022 — fewer than the 1,799 who died of overdoses. This table from the first article lists the leading causes of death in Colorado as of 2022. But it's a major oversight in a city like DC, where addiction is high, for example 461 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022.

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Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen, Japan, as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning | Planning and executing complementary improvements across the transit network + advances in transit marketing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There definitely needs to be that kind of training on new transit infrastructure and marketing for transit workers--eg while riding buses I've listened to how DC Circulator bus drivers don't provide information in response to queries about Metrobus and vice versa--as well as tourism and hospitality professionals.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). The Kerslake Report: An Independent Review into the Preparedness For, and Emergency Response to, the Manchester Arena Attack on 22nd May 2017.