The Lowe Down

MAY 9, 2023

Ever since Iowa Electronic Markets outperformed experts and polls in predicting election results from 1988 to 2004, the academic community has been particularly excited about leveraging the wisdom of crowds (Surowiecki, 2005), or how the “many are smarter than the few.” If you forecast 100% and an event occurred, your Brier score would be 0.

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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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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared). In the UK emergency planners do not manage the events they plan for. In 2017, the responses to the Manchester Arena bombings and the Grenfell Tower fire were substantially criticised.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wrote about Boulder's in 2005, " Now I know why Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is the exception that proves the rule about the failures of pedestrian malls." College towns in Burlington, Vermont, Madison, Wisconsin, Boulder, Colorado and Charlottesville, Virginia are probably the most successful examples. Flickr photo by Let Ideas Compete.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In last week's piece on the opening of the second phase of the Silver Line (" Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week "), and in the original piece ("" Using the Silver Line as the priming event, what would a transit network improvement program look like for NoVA? ") I never did add a similar point. Tertiary Network concept.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2024

The Gates, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Central Park, New York City, 2005 Separately, murals as an element of public art are often used by communities as a way to call attention to a district and move revitalization objectives forward (" 10 new murals added in South Salt Lake for 6th annual Mural Fest ," ABC4). Bridgeville Pennsylvania.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 15, 2020

Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar and killed 136,000 of its citizens, in part because they had no role in creating resilience against such an event. The coup de grâce was the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. It is a pity, as the United States have lost the lead in this field–if they ever had it.

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

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. Clyde Haberman takes on compelling events and people in the news. His blog keeps up to dates with his dealings and policies in his city. Mayor Slay. Louis on April 17, 2001.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.) But it's really a broader program than could be accomplished in the time frame of constructing the Silver Line. Extending the Yellow Line south on Rte. 1 to Fort Belvoir , adding four stations: Beacon Hill; Hybla Valley; Mount Vernon; and Fort Belvoir.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

Personally, I think an arena is probably an acceptable choice, especially as it likely will increase transit ridership to events--the team estimates that the 70% of trips to the current arena will drop to 40%, with the much better transit location of Market East. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 9, 2019

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," (2018) -- " Yes the neighborhood will change, but it will take 10-25 years ," (2018) -- " House flipping as reproduction of space ," (2018) -- " Q: Could a community land trust help solve D.C.s I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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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. Event space, Old Main Street Station, Richmond. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

Together, these two events make clear that closing costs are moving to the front burner of housing policy. Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent. In both documents, see the section titled “Financing the Home Purchase.”

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

In order for a social movement driven by social media to live, or to be an event, the activism must be displayed not only through social media but also have a presence in the world on public display in plain view. Even better, it permits bypassing the traditional media with their message in real time as an event occurs.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

11 However, there is no evidence that there was a commensurate increase in G-fees in 2022, as such a large increase would have been a major political event in housing finance, with lots of loud complaining by the industry. Individual GSE public financial disclosures do, however, indicate there may have been a modest increase during 2022 (i.e.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 14, 2025

The latter, along with the opening of the Silver Line, seem to be the key events in marking the decline of the WMATA system in terms of service, operations, and ridership declines. Left: Greenbelt Station on the day of a protest, full of people being dropped off by tour buses, and being shepherded to Downtown DC via the Metro (2005).

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

APRIL 3, 2025

Fugate led FEMA through multiple record-breaking disaster years and oversaw the Federal Governments response to major events such as the Joplin and Moore Tornadoes, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Matthew, and the 2016 Louisiana flooding.

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Park Leaders

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It has even lead to global collaboration and been recognized at events like the World Ranger Congress. In 2005, Jeff initiated World Ranger Day. This has become an annual event that honors rangers worldwide, including those lost in the previous year. This work has brought the sacrifices of park rangers to light.

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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

From the entry: A walkable community plan would incorporate other treatments or elements besides sidewalks such as intersections, plazas, pedestrian "malls," parklets, laneways and alleys, walking as an element of commercial districts, "safe routes to school," night time lighting issues, wayfinding signage, the walking element of trails/shared use (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

According to the Seattle Times , " Pike Place Market backs out of event on incarceration of Japanese Americans." I was there for a historic preservation conference in 2005, and one of the tours I registered for was of the light rail. They said the event isn't congruent with their values. I can understand self-censorship.

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