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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

Relatedly, in planning engagements, planners have two responsibilities, simultaneously dealing with "citywide" concerns as laid out in a master or comprehensive land use plan for the community, as well as neighborhood concerns, while residents typically only take responsibility for the latter. City revival. The Height Limit discussions.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It is considered one of America’s government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs), i.e., public-private hybrid corporations created by Congress and authorized to engage only in a narrowly-tailored set of activities. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 billion for fiscal 2024.

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Challenges—and Opportunities—to Addressing Vacant Properties in Raton, New Mexico

Center for Community Progress

The end of its major coal mining industry , beginning in the 1950s to the closure of the final mine in 2003, could have been a death sentence for the city. Raton could foreclose on the municipal liens associated with 123 Raton Street under existing New Mexico law.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. OWS reached citizens in general, but also engaged the entire world in a domestic matter. The new media on which these early rallies were organized are significant because of the people that became engaged.