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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

These two recent entries recount many of the pieces as step by step I developed a more comprehensive approach to arts-based revitalization. -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?):

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004).

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent. Post-2008, with all the reforms enacted via the Dodd-Frank Act (e.g., 10] See [link]. [11]

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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

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). This incredible exponential growth of the movement was likely a consequence of the movement’s decentralization (Brafman & Beckstrom, 2006).

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I think I was ahead of many of those scholars. -- " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept ," (2008, originally 2006) 2. Transit stations as marketing touchpoints and as a design product: i this line of inquiry started when DC let a new bus shelter contract in 2005. From the c. I see they're updating their plan.)