GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

When Mitch Daniels took office as Indiana’s Governor in 2005, one of the top items on his agenda was reforming the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). In 2018, the bureau made a big training push, updating curricula and ensuring that all employees received training in their first two weeks on the job, according to the BMV’s 2018 annual report.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 22, 2023

Also see: -- " Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework ," 2018 There's been a lot of reporting of late on communities reducing parking requirements, and a new book by Henry Grabar (" Book Review: 'Paved Paradise,' by Henry Grabar ," New York Times). But Donald Shoup's High Cost of Free Parking was published in 2005.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

See the following: Manufactured Housing, Modular Housing and Zoning (2020); Abandoned Manufactured Homes: What’s Next (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight: Some Next Steps (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight (2018); Marco Polo and Mobile Home Spaces (2017); Mobile Homes and Property Taxes (2010); Transforming Trailers into Assets (2005).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

about the importance of CapitalOne Arena on the development of Downtown's East End. Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). I argued it would have happened anyway. said "no, the Arena has had significant impact." The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live." I was too parochial.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 11, 2020

It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. It is also important to remember that the Covid-19 pandemic occurs in the context of other developments. Spinney, L.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it.

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