Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The transit network concept I worked out is based on how Arlington County, Virginia, in their 2005 Trasnportation Plan, defined a Primary and a Secondary Transit Network. As any transit user knows, once in a great while every transfer works beautifully, with little if any waiting (e.g., Tertiary Network concept.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

WMATA's 2005 study, Development-Related Ridership Survey , found significant car trip reduction associated with the buildings in Metrorail station catchment areas, even in areas outside the core. To better leverage the value of proximity to transit , density bonuses of at least a couple stories should be a standard policy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2025

I wrote a piece in the series pretty recently, in December in " Richard's Rules for Restaurant (Food) Based Revitalization, Salt Lake City and DC's Chinatown." 20 years later, perhaps the title is a bit of a misnomer.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We mostly dealt with drug and gun crimes, but got robberies, assaults, murder, etc. testimonies too.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 8, 2024

It had a decent run, but it closed in 2005 (" Wah Luck House maintains culture in dying D.C. It was an okay size and in a pretty good location roughly at the intersection of 7th and H Streets NW and across from the Gallery Place Metrorail Station. Chinatown ," Washington Post , 2011).

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 9, 2019

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Caffrey 2005. Taxonomy is the process of classifying things or concepts and is usually backed by principles. The health sciences also have a different perspective (Myrtle et al. Myrtle, R.C.,

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

2013) suggests that social activism in online spaces such as YouTube is not easily defined, but is adapted to suit movement needs—which makes social media a popular and flexible venue for activism but also highlights the challenges for scholars studying such venues. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). A study by Vragara et al.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

People like me have been saying this for years, that WMATA needs to invest in its relationship with area residents as customers, riders, funders (as taxpayers), and supporters of transit. -- " Making Transit Sexy ," 2005 (!) -- " More on Metro and rethinking transit marketing ," 2006 -- " Helping Government Learn ," 2009 -- " Transit, stations, and (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. Bush, when the administration and the Federal Reserve proposed to limit the size of the investment portfolios of the two companies in 2005.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

This was described on the one hand as unfair, since it relied on overcharging low-risk borrowers “who had played by all the rules” and, on the other hand, as unduly incenting bad loans at the GSEs (by charging too little for high-risk loans) in a quasi-replay of the lead up to the mortgage bubble of 2005 to 2008.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 12, 2025

average read per month: 11.25 average read per week: 2.6 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 14, 2025

(Reprint) ," Note: some stations will be closed within the National Mall area, and service will start at 4 am but "Everyone over the age of 5 needs a SmarTrip card to enter and exit stations." == The original post was from January 2, 2013, about 3 weeks before the Inauguration for President Obama's second term. Getting through faregates.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

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. The problem is it hasn't been effectuated very much at the neighborhood scale: -- " Intra-neighborhood (tertiary) transit revisited because of new San Diego service ," (2016) 4.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

It's fair to say that in NYC Mayor De Blasio cares a lot less about this than former Mayor Bloomberg (" A Playbook on the Politics of Better Streets ," Bloomberg), and in DC, most elected officials are from "the outer city" where the automobile remains dominant (" DC as a suburban agenda dominated city ," 2013).

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