The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. Additionally, the GSEs did not commercially operate like efficient and competitive business organizations.

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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. Red Line trains will operate every six minutes, while Blue, Orange and Silver line trains will arrive every 12 minutes. to accommodate crowds.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Operating safely isn’t a choice. I guess WMATA still has this opportunity with upcoming 50th anniversary of the start of service--2026--to get their "stuff" together, rebuild the consensus, actually figure out how to operate the system, grow it, if possible, etc. We are keeping customers at the center of everything we do.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2023

But that has been by the choice of the tenants, and was facilitated by a transit system that once operated much more reliably than it does at present. In short it's trickle down. and protocols for shifting trips and reducing car ownership--for example, car sharing systems are a great way to support not owning a car.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Another example is the taxi collectif program of the STM transit system in Montreal , which operates at end of line stations. The transit network concept I worked out is based on how Arlington County, Virginia, in their 2005 Trasnportation Plan, defined a Primary and a Secondary Transit Network. Tertiary Network concept.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Later, I realized that along the lines of thinking about transit as a network operating at different scales I propose a metropolitan scale as the foundation, usually heavy rail and railroad, and then center city and suburban (sub)networks within it. This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It's an old rail corridor that was acquired by the Utah Transit Authority (" From rails to trails ," Deseret News , 2005) and is a joint project with the communities it passes through. It's not in operation because of covid but there is a miniature railroad park, S&S Shoreline Railroad, abutting the trail in Farmington.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2024

From the article: “We have big ambitions for the arts program here, which is to be New York’s pre-eminent public art destination,” said Clare Newman, the president and chief executive of the Trust, a nonprofit organization created by the city to develop and operate the island as a recreational and cultural resource. Photo: Donald Yip. “We

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

Cities cost money to operate. I argue that that section of the Metro operates "monocentrically" while the overall design of the system is polycentric, which doesn't help the city so much--BART is a great example of a polycentric system, although SF doesn't really need it because it has its own rail-based transit system.

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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. It operates Thursday-Sunday in two local business districts. Do a food fermentation operation.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent average G-fee in 2021, about one-third represents items such as operating expenses and loan losses, i.e., things other than the return on capital, and the other two-thirds the needed capital return – or a split (with some rounding) of about 0.15 Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30 31 Increasing the 0.30 percentage points.

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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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Google Public Sector

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In 2005, AFIP’s biorepository was transferred to the newly created Joint Pathology Center (JPC). Institute of Medicine (now called the National Academy of Medicine) to provide advice on operating the biorepository. During the transition, the DoD asked the U.S.

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JUNE 16, 2013

In this document, we complete our four-part vision by articulating a doctrine we call “swarming,” and which we believe may eventually apply across the entire spectrum of conflict—from low to high intensity, and from civic-oriented actions to military combat operations on land, at sea, and in the air (preface, iii). Image: Faggard, 2013.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

2005, there was an urban renewal plan for the Union Market district, then called Florida Market, which I and others opposed for something more ground up. When a couple of large parcels were sold to a regional shopping center operator I thought the area was toast. Union Market in more humble days. Flickr photo by Tyler Nelson.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Transit/transportation as a set of networks operating at different scales : this extends the argument laid out in the 2006 Arlington County Master Transportation Plan, where they defined their primary and secondary transit networks. (

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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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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." But there are over 20 operators of the various services, including private operators of bus lines. My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. Start over.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

1 My view is that the current way they operate – which varies considerably between the four agencies – would be significantly improved if they all applied three key principles: Do risk-adjusting on a practical and easily implementable basis, very much enabled by today’s information processing capabilities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In terms of operating the business, the Main Street recommendation is that a traditional retailer spend no more than 4% of its gross revenue on rent. The URL is long because at the time I didn't appreciate the need for brevity. I have over 12,000 entries. And an office worker supports 3 s.f. of quick service food/restaurant space and 2 s.f.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, blogs and photo sharing sites illustrate the flexibility of ICT platforms in supporting collective action and social movements while the mediums themselves are both inexpensive to operate and instantaneous; multiple messages can be conveyed clearly and consistently over the course of movement evolution.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

From the 2005 New York Times article " Splendor in the Grass ": It was lunchtime at Bryant Park, and thousands of office workers were gathered beneath the emerald veil of trees. Keith Bedford for The New York Times. A man and a woman: Minding the gender gap in Bryant Park. But overall in the US, such services haven't fared too well.

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