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The most momentous transportation story of 2025 has already occurred: imposition of NYC's congestion zone

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

We know about congestion zones from cities like London and Stockholm, where motor vehicle operators pay a toll charge for entering the city core. The scheme is modelled partly on that of London, where since 2003 a daily charge (currently 15, or $19) has reduced the number of cars, improved air quality and funded transit upgrades.

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How to Improve Cybersecurity Through Simplicity

GovLoop

Operational Technology (OT): The convergence of IT with OT, such as integrated industrial control systems and healthcare delivery systems, has enabled improvement in enterprise systems monitoring and management, yet, as with IoT, converged systems often lack the cybersecurity capabilities to protect them from emerging cyberthreats.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

These properties were in most cases sold at sheriff’s sales to responsible rehabbers or to municipal land banks, kept and managed the unsold vacant lots until a future use could be identified. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

One of the most penetrating criticisms is that in any discipline many parallel paradigms are operating. The 1970s were a period in which Kuhn's ideas were vigorously debated by people who were much more knowledgeable in the philosophy of science than I will ever be (Meiland 1974, Nickles 2003, Scheffler 1972). Hagerstrand, T.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I guess that Greg O'Dell, long time CEO, left for the private sector a couple years ago (" Greg O’Dell Named OVG360 President for Venue Management ," SportsTravel). Plus, they are crappy at managing non-sports functions in their spaces. And it could be about the director, who is new and interim.

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I suggested something like this to the DC Main Street program in 2003, but it was too ambitious for them to understand.) Such programs and relatedly, business plan competitions, should really be run at the scale of a city (something I suggested to DC Main Streets in 2003, but they couldn't wrap their head around it). The concept?