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Rayful Edmond's death reminds me of my introduction to Washington, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FWIW, this area gave me another lesson, my lodestone in revitalization, in that investments in transit infrastructure in the right places has the fastest ROI, when the infill NoMA Red Line subway station opened in 2004 ( case study ) which brought about a huge influx in new residents.

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Equitable Development Conference Special Episode!

Iron Sharpens Iron

She previously served as People’s Emergency Center CDC’s Director of Community Engagement & Partnerships. Cass co-founded the Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) in 2004 and serves as its president along with having established the Fine Arts Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiative in 2005.

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Equitable Development Conference Special Episode!

Iron Sharpens Iron

She previously served as People’s Emergency Center CDC’s Director of Community Engagement & Partnerships. Cass co-founded the Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) in 2004 and serves as its president along with having established the Fine Arts Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiative in 2005.

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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)

As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. 11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome. [12] 19] It peaked in 2004 at just over $1.6

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Recreation planning and financing failure in Philadelphia: 11 of 12 public swimming pools have closed

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article on the latter, " Philly’s indoor pools have become ‘a travesty’ after decades of disrepair and neglect ," about how 11 of 12 public indoor pools are closed because of facility failure--from 2004 to 2019. One issue is money.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). Drawing on Michael Barzelay and Fred Thompson (2010), we can say that deliberative argumentation consists of engaging with others in: Careful observation, analysis, and synthesis.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. This is particularly unfortunate as there is immense scope to generate more community engagement. Every country needs a law that specifies the nature of the civil protection system and the basic details of how it works.