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

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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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Image: Faggard, 2013. As Faggard concludes his 2013 paper [diagram], “the process of forming online groups capable of creating tension to overwhelm decision makers or government forces through a communication-based social swarm is possible. Retrieved from h ttp://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I have other pieces about options for funding. -- " Metrolinx Toronto: 25 potential tools to fund transit-transportation infrastructure ," 2013 suggests a more structured process for identifying funding than an interview published in the Post. Maybe this is no longer necessary. Funding options. The best would be a transit withholding tax.

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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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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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