Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The term "greenwashing" is used to refer to organizations that announce sustainability initiatives as a way to detract from their generally poor practices. Weekend travelers join the traffic on I-15 near Point of the Mountain near Draper Thursday, Aug. Although people criticizing my stance say it's an important step forward.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The advantage of promoting biking to college students is that they are "impressionable" and it's a good time to develop sustainable behaviors as routine (" College towns of a certain size as an opportunity for sustainable mobility nirvana ," 2018).

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Reprogramming the City

APRIL 1, 2023

Recent advancements in waste to energy (WtE) technologies have offered a promising solution for repurposing waste into energy, providing a sustainable and efficient means of managing waste while also generating valuable energy. Repurposing the City isn’t only about finding new use for the structures of the city, but all urban resources.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

There's been a freeway deck in Oak Park, Michigan over I-696 for almost 30 years ," 2018 There would be a lot more throughput for mass transit underground in Las Vegas, rather than his car-based "solution." The capacity for cars is less than 2,000 people per hour per lane, for a shuttle 6,000, for rail more than that.

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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. Root Causes. 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. 3 (2018): 489-530.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 25, 2023

I proposed something like that, although within communities, as point #10, "Create a digital community and transit information network for Silver Spring, employing kiosks and mobile applications" in " PL #5: Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 3: Program items 10-18 " (2018).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Environmental controls and sustainability: IoT sensors can assist in maximising energy efficiency, monitoring pollution levels, traffic control, and sustainable resources. This is over six times the amount processed in 2018. © Patrick Daxenbichler. But along with such advancements comes a lot more data.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

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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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 2, 2023

This viewer , which draws from the 2018 National Climate Assessment and describes anticipated climate impacts at the regional level, is a good starting point. The Adaptation Clearinghouse is continuously updated by its member contributors, as well as by members of the Georgetown Climate Center and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options. . -- " "Government" or "advocacy" approaches: either/or vs. and/and and DC area regional trails planning ," 2020 The Salt Lake Valley is served by the Wasatch Front Regional Council , and the MPO function is one element of its mission.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Prior to joining DCDPR in 2018, Delano was the Chief Service Officer for Serve DC, a D.C. government agency dedicated to promoting service as an innovative, sustainable solution to pressing social challenges. Before that, he helped develop a mentoring program at Nike.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We’re just at a point where it is no longer financially sustainable to continue the course. Create something totally new that I’ve been wanting to create since 2018! We’ve tried changing the pricing, improving the course content, and spending tens of thousands on external marketing and advertising support.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Bird launched in Santa Monica, a tourist-beach town, and the scooter users were recreational. -- " What the e-scooter industry hasn't figured out about Santa Monica: It's recreation not transportation ," 2018 Note, ride hailing is a similar issue.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. I talked about "the back story" of how I was approaching this from my perspective as an urban person committed to smart growth and sustainable mobility, and the lessons I had been learning.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 31, 2023

Commercial EPC timeline Since 2018, the minimum energy efficiency standard for commercial property is E, meaning it is unlawful to grant a new tenant, in a property with an EPC rating of F or G. This can play a vital part in meeting a company’s sustainability policies and reaching net zero.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I think that parks, libraries, sustainable mobility programs, and other civic assets are potential touchpoints for civic engagement and participation. London has a similar grants program for sustainable mobility improvements. But that our management processes aren't set up to do that. Some cities already do this.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Northern Virginia elected officials and stakeholders tend to be reasonably forward (not necessarily visionary) about the role of transit in the success of their communities, especially Arlington and Fairfax Counties--the latter because they think it can repattern land use along the Silver Line.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Fast forward to 2018, when AWS announced plans to launch data center infrastructure in the country. AWS’s investment in South Africa from 2018-2022 has contributed ZAR 12 billion in gross domestic product (GDP), while supporting an estimated average of 5,700 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs locally on an average annual basis.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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). It is a role that is seldom sustained enough to make a thorough-going difference. International Journal of Climatology 41(S2): 1-76. Kerslake, B.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework "). It's about speed versus access. Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020).

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. The revenue structure varies greatly among 411 municipalities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Since the program’s inception in 2018, AWS has awarded grants to 66 nonprofit organizations with missions ranging from food security and housing, to maternal healthcare and social justice. Learn more about how to apply for the AWS IMAGINE Grant here.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

," 2017 -- " Crystal City Arlington as Amazon one-half of HQ2 | Part 3: Leveraging Amazon's entrance for complementary transit network improvements ," 2018 -- " Crystal City Arlington as Amazon one-half of HQ2 | Part 4: Pie in the Sky transit improvements ," 2018 -- " A "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for a statewide passenger railroad program (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 28, 2024

Then again, when I get into "arguments" about this, the issue isn't to make people in Montana or Wyoming, who often drive hundreds of miles on trips because of the distance between communities, but to capture as many trips as possible by sustainable means in those places where sustainable mobility is particularly efficient.

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The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

See the following: Manufactured Housing, Modular Housing and Zoning (2020); Abandoned Manufactured Homes: What’s Next (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight: Some Next Steps (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight (2018); Marco Polo and Mobile Home Spaces (2017); Mobile Homes and Property Taxes (2010); Transforming Trailers into Assets (2005).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

. -- " The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ," 2017 -- " Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland ," International Journal of Sustainable Transportation , 2018 When I first (..)

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

The cloud’s carbon footprint was estimated to be over 2% of global electricity production According to research from Yale in 2018, the cloud’s carbon footprint was estimated to be over 2% of global electricity production, with more recent data suggesting it’s now 3%.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

Improving air quality through co-creation In 2018, the Mayor of London set an ambitious goal : 80 percent of the 31 million daily trips in the city should be made on foot, by bicycle, or public transport by 2041. By the end of 2022, 63 percent of journeys fulfilled these criteria.

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

We first wrote on the topic of preparing a grant strategy back in 2018 in a post entitled " Creating a Grant Strategy for 2018. While it's an understandable impulse to want to pursue any grant opportunity that appears to have potential, this approach is neither strategic nor sustainable.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

But by then, other cities, especially San Francisco ( Sustainable Mobility and Climate Action Strategy ) and New York City ( World Class Streets: Remaking New York City's Public Realm ) far outspanned DC in terms of improving public spaces. They remade it into a full park circle.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Modeled after the NC Rural Center’s Loan Participation Program , CornerSquare Community Capital will be a long-term, sustainable solution to support CDFIs working with small businesses at the local level. Jenny Flores, Head of Small Business Growth Philanthropy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

On June 21, 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative ( ASDI ) Global Hackathon, part of a new collaboration with the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence, under the auspices of UNESCO. ASDI data catalog offers open and no cost data in the cloud.

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