Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I was reading an article about a failed shopping mall, and caught this at the end of the article: MEET THE EDITORS NIGHT IN OKOLONA Courier Journal reporters are working from the South Central Regional Library weekdays in September as part of its mobile newsroom. Everyone doesn’t have the same access to The Courier Journal.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This Seattle Times article, " Is West Seattle the rock ’n’ roll capital of Seattle? ," illustrates those ideas--record stores, clubs, artists living there, record labels, the KEXP-FM rock radio station, practice spaces, recording studios, music education programs in Seattle Public Schools, etc., Kylie Cooper / The Seattle Times).

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Policy Chats

JULY 16, 2021

About Anil Deolalikar: Anil Deolalikar has been founding dean of the School of Public Policy since February 2013 and a professor of economics at UC Riverside since 2003. About Anil Deolalikar: Anil Deolalikar has been founding dean of the School of Public Policy since February 2013 and a professor of economics at UC Riverside since 2003.

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Policy Chats

JULY 16, 2021

About Anil Deolalikar: Anil Deolalikar has been founding dean of the School of Public Policy since February 2013 and a professor of economics at UC Riverside since 2003. About Anil Deolalikar: Anil Deolalikar has been founding dean of the School of Public Policy since February 2013 and a professor of economics at UC Riverside since 2003.

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Policy Chats

JULY 16, 2021

About Anil Deolalikar: Anil Deolalikar has been founding dean of the School of Public Policy since February 2013 and a professor of economics at UC Riverside since 2003. About Anil Deolalikar: Anil Deolalikar has been founding dean of the School of Public Policy since February 2013 and a professor of economics at UC Riverside since 2003.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

As chair of the H Street Main Street Promotions Committee back in 2003 this is something we did too. This article is interesting. For example, a few years ago, I walked from Manor Park to Columbia Heights and back, and picked up and disposed of over 500 recyclables.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

When I do searches for articles within the blog, I come across articles that remain in draft form, as I never got around to finishing them. So there is a current article in the Post (" Departing DC planner Harriet Tregoning hailed as 'forward-thinking public servant ") and a previous article in the City Paper (" Urbanista!:

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

2003 ( Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania ), and it mentioning how so many of the micro jurisdictions across the state including in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is, lacked the financial capacity to serve their residents.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

MARCH 23, 2017

After the discussion, I went back to my office and brushed off Heather Hill’s 2003 JPART article on implementation resources, “ Understanding Implementation: Street?Level Jill’s research is making a difference in the real world, not only through her academic publications, but through the creation of implementation resources.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening. The Washington Post reports (" D.C.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

3 The release of the FHFA report has also sparked a flurry of articles, op-eds, and think tank reports either supporting or countering some or all the recommendations. This two-part article argues that the root cause of their need for reform is a fundamental flaw in Congress’ design of GSEs. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Article by Joseph Zhong. The results became widely apparent after 2003 when GDP and Gross Value Added (GVA) in the Dominican Republic grew exponentially in comparison to Haiti; technological investments in a country take a few years to pan out. Which school would you pick: the University of Alabama or Samford University?

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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. The city did a plan for the area around 2003. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times. We live in divided, short-sighted times. They don’t conform to election cycles.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

The core thesis of this two-part article is that the congressional design of GSEs has a fundamental flaw: that subsidies and privileges given to a GSE will inevitably, over time, drift to being used unduly to produce stand-alone profit to benefit their owners and executives, and too little to support its intended mission.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Washington Post , July 13, 2003. This led WMATA to get rid of its long range engineering and construction unit, and losing decades of experience in building and running the system ("Metro Construction Projects Creak to Halt; Economic, Political Changes Cancel Expansion Plans, Spur Job Cuts, Early Retirements," Lyndsey Layton.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs.

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The Lowe Down

AUGUST 10, 2024

Article by David Mathias and Rachel Supnick Sitting just east of Los Angeles, the Inland Empire is a metropolitan region consisting of San Bernardino and Riverside counties. In this article, we study air quality and road damage. micrometers in diameter – poses health risks when appearing in high concentrations in the air.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." DC did that in 2009. increase in violent crimes. In the early 2000s!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 19, 2024

There's an interesting article on the "gentrification" of the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. The article online has the title " Rise in residential development in Germantown sparks optimism — and caution ," WHYY/NPR). The article discusses the development of new apartments, both new construction, as well as adaptive reuse.

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The Lowe Down

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Article by Aryan Totawat. Assessing car prices and other data from April 2003 to February 2020, it turns out that four variables have been key in determining car prices: gas prices, the 12-month lagging federal funds rate (i.e., The car market is one of many in the U.S. that has seen soaring prices over the past couple of years.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A short bibliography of sources that deal with common faults in Turkish R/C construction is appended at the end of this article. Mosalam 2003. An experienced civil engineer could evaluate some of that by eye, but much of the rest is hidden and only exposed once the building collapses. Whittaker, K.J. Elwood and K.M.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Washington Post has an article, " H Street was once a symbol of D.C.’s That being said, a Reddit entry in response to the article makes some excellent points that I wouldn't necessarily have come up with, not being there any more. As Project for Public Spaces says, you need multiple attractions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

From the article: Prince George’s County didn’t feel like a place to make movies when actress Kike Ayodeji grew up. As pointed out in the Post article, if you want to develop a functioning if not thriving film community, you need to support its development, and a film festival is an element that does. I think it's a great idea.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

From the article: Surveying the 30-plus public gardens, arboretums, historical landscapes, and support groups that comprise Greater Philadelphia Gardens, consulting firm Econsult Solutions added up the digits and found an economic impact of $256 million a year, a big boon for the tourism industry. s Black arts scene ," Post ).

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Jodi Dean (2005) says that slacktivism results in post-politics: “Busy people can think they are active – the technology will act for them, alleviating their guilt while assuring them that nothing will change too much. […] By sending an e-mail, signing a petition, responding to an article on a blog, people can feel political. Bennett, C.W.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Agglomeration economies and the biotech cluster in Cambridge Massachusetts.The Globe article explains why I am such a proponent of face to face, cluster development and agglomeration economies. Characteristics of cultural quarters From Montgomery (2003). Like "bump factor" instead of "agglomeration economies." Stable arts funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There was an article in my newsfeed that Kroger, the largest supermarket company, is going to buy Albertsons, the second largest supermarket company (" Albertsons merger with Kroger could be announced this week ," CNBC. And earlier than some of their competitors, they began opening new stores in center cities, starting with Portland in 2003.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

I should have been a professor and written this up as journal articles--which have much more longevity than a blog post, but c'est la vie. At the Urban Forum in Philadelphia in 2003, I asked one of the speakers, Charles Buki, what were some of his key influences. Governing Magazine was full of articles about government success.

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