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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

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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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Richard's Rules for Restaurant-Based Revitalization: New business models are needed for 2025

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Makan had average entree costs significantly out of step with being located in a neighborhood, not Downtown or key restaurant districts like a Georgetown DC, where patrons go out for special meals, often on business accounts (Also see " Why restaurants are fighting to avoid being special-occasion spots ," Crain's Chicago Business ).

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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

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

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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

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). A study by Vragara et al.,

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. Need staff to be able to do it. This should be indoors and outdoors.