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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Planners are tasked with considering the future and dealing with it, not trying to prevent change necessarily, but instead working to manage it and mitigate and limit negative effects, in ways that are good for the city in general and neighborhoods specifically, simultaneously. I chalk that up to a failure of leadership and approach.

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Partnership unveils the 2024 Service to America Medals® finalists

Partnership for Public Service

Management Excellence – recognizing a federal employee or team for delivering results through superior leadership and exceptional management skills. Emerging Leaders – recognizing a federal employee under the age of 35 who made an important contribution to the public good.

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From LAX to ONT: The Transfer of Ontario International Airport and its Economic Implications

The Lowe Down

By examining cargo volume, domestic and international passenger traffic, and the resulting financial implications, we show that the Ontario Airport has performed significantly better under local management. Domestic flights make up the majority of all flights across all years between 2002 and 2022. of revenues.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The failure of emergency planning is perhaps the greatest error made in the management of the Covid-19 disaster. If neither answer can be confidently made, then the emergency managers simply have to do without a response. Covid-19 has taught the world an enormously important lesson about how to manage a crisis.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Public Realm as an Interconnected system, Slide from presentation, "Leadership and the Role of Parks and Recreation in the New Economy," David Barth and Carlos Perez, AECOM. A couple years later I helped Brookland create one, and later served as a program manager in Brookland.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In fact, light rail here in Salt Lake was spurred by the 2002 Olympics, it's a small system and doesn't go to all the places it should, but it's complemented by a developing commuter rail program, a dinky streetcar line on the south side of Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, and a decent enough bus system. . *