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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
Note that this was written before it was announced that the Washington Wizards and Capitals would be moving to Alexandria, Virginia.
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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 19, 2023
This let the system get sloppy in terms of finance, budgeting, and understanding why "WMATA is so successful at funding operations from farebox revenue." Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting. Too many transit services in the DC area make planning subsidiary to budgeting. They charge two.
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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis
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. Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems.
The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 4, 2024
7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W.
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Masters in Public Administration
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Read them to learn how a city budget works, how townhall meetings are conducted, and even to see the inner workings of a police department. Rybak was elected Mayor of Minneapolis in 2001 and was re-elected again in 2005 to serve another term. He was also reelected in 2005 and again in 2009. Top City Mayor Blogs. Mayor Slay.
Covid-19: An Address
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
MARCH 15, 2020
The coup de grâce was the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Perhaps the answer is that it is too difficult to plan a system that has been decimated, after eight years of Draconian budget cuts. It is a pity, as the United States have lost the lead in this field–if they ever had it. It was a model of inefficiency and failure.
20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.
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