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Interesting study on litter focuses on the brand of the trash

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And I wrote more pieces over the years. -- " Every litter bit hurts ," 2005 -- " Litter revisited ," 2006 Photo by Inked78. Plastic was the most common material recorded, accounting for 63.1% One of my earliest blog entries was on litter, as a result of those efforts. 700 block of H Street NE. of all items.

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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Ironically, under the Williams Administration--1998-2006--the resuscitation of the DC Housing Authority was one of the city's great accomplishments , and the director, Michael Kelly, was even detailed by HUD to help fix failing authorities in Philadelphia and New York City. Housing Authority better ," Post ).

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the city has never developed the capacity to be particularly good at that, and definitely the energy to revitalize the communities in the Anacostia River community has been moribund ever since, which has been about 15 years. Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes.

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance. As the government has successfully implemented low downpayment mortgage products, closing costs now account for roughly half of all the cash needed upfront by many first-time homebuyers to purchase a home.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. 2006 and beyond, although what it's become is perhaps far beyond what I suggested, " Retail planning and Florida Market ," 2009. But definitely eater-tainment. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time. We did this in 2008 or 2009. But I had the basic ideas down.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

at with opportunity for direct “horizontal communication” between network peers (Schmidtchen, 2006) and as I would also point out, leaders inspire social action or other participatory behavior. These complex networks are optimal when fully connected and ?at Mergel, Ines and Greeves, Bill (2013). San Francisco, CA:Jossey Bass.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). Social Media Definitions. Early scholars explain motivation where collective action represents rational choice (i.e.