Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Then an open-air drug market called The Strip, Edmonds employees once stashed drugs in abandoned houses here and sold them at a clip of 30 transactions a minute.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). blocks from a light rail station. Building the station cost a lot. It's expensive to build.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

For example, one tree she learned about was planted as a barter between a family that helped a poorer one heat their house in a particularly cold winter. I first heard this concept expressed by David Barth at a presentation in 2004. The helped family planted a special tree in the neighbor's planting strip.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 13, 2016

It has been recognized as a model of community collaboration, including by the White House Council for Community Solutions. Bevan Baker has been the Commissioner of Health in Milwaukee since 2004. The three main prongs of the strategy are: An aggressive advertising campaign targeted to teens. The use of evidence-based sex education.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I participated in a workshop on the plaza led by Project for Public Spaces and Scenic America in 2004 ( write up ). Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. It could create the potential for noise conflicts, as it abuts housing on C Street and North Carolina Avenue.)

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

The Civil Contingencies Act of 2004 is of debatable value, as evidenced by the fact that it was in effect abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic emergency. The risk here is that any amendment to or substitution of the Act will merely tinker with the works, rather than effecting the fundamental changes in the system that are needed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. When it is the Idea Store ,” 2004, Guardian ). I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

WRT local governments not being good at providing extranormal service see " The Life and Death of a Masterpiece: What went wrong with a 1988 park by the late Dan Kiley, and what can we learn from its imminent demolition? ," Landscape Architecture , 2004. But there are many others. Note sometimes it is poor planning, lack of coordination, etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Complete Guide to City Living , 2004, Retire Downtown: The Lifestyle Destination for Active Retirees and Empty Nesters , 2006, both by Kyle Ezell), but mostly in weak market cities where the office districts were depopulated by business. Or some housing on top of retail. Not mixed commercial use.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] And, as mentioned above, the Biden administration has not even begun to execute on any such exit plan.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Later I summarized it as building better housing for low income residents was important but not the way to improve the local microeconomy. Homogeneous housing and moderate to upper income, insurance, and conventional financing available. The URL is long because at the time I didn't appreciate the need for brevity.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Bush in 2004. These efforts build on previous White House efforts to connect with users across a range of social media sites and make the experience of the speech appropriate to each platform. And finally, keep engaging with the White House: We’re listening” (Goldman). Bush administration in 2002. No small feat.

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