Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Rather than adamantly saying "no," I came to realize that since advocates mostly lose out on such initiatives--except if the city or state requires a public vote--we should be focusing on mitigating the problems from such facilities and increasing the benefits. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

At the same time, traditional political movements—those linked to candidates or issue campaigns—have responded to opportunities presented by the new media environment by becoming hybrid organizations, centrally managed but enabling a relatively entrepreneurial base (Bimber, Flannagan, & Stohl, 2005). Political Communication 25 , 269–289.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. 3, Supplement. Women and the American City (Spring, 1980), pp. Keith Bedford for The New York Times.

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