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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

authorities say that in the 1980s, he commanded a ruthless crack cocaine operation, raking in an estimated $2 million a week and fueling a deadly epidemic that plunged D.C. Besides all the deaths, in another way, his is a tragic story, because clearly he had the smarts to be a very successful businessman.

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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)

The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. Additionally, the GSEs did not commercially operate like efficient and competitive business organizations.

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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. It lacks a national emergency operations centre. For the ops people in Rome there is a cluster of five emergency operations rooms in a substantial purpose-built complex. In The Hague there is a compact but technologically advanced operations centre.

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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 answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association.") Also in not funding "civic engagement" and capacity building to help third party nonprofits raise money and support for indoor swimming. But also schools.

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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 was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts. Additionally, other recommendations were made to update aspects of how the FHLBanks operate to reflect the current environment rather than what existed many decades ago.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Cities cost money to operate. I make this point often that planning engagements are set up to fail from the outset because planners have to achieve both city (or county wide goals like economic development) as well as neighborhood specific objectives, while residents tend to take responsibility only for the latter.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I participated in a workshop on the plaza led by Project for Public Spaces and Scenic America in 2004 ( write up ). But the South Hall vendors I don't think want more competition and the city and CAC members think it's more important to make revenue from facility rental to otherwise support subsidizing operations of the rest of the market.