Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These two recent entries recount many of the pieces as step by step I developed a more comprehensive approach to arts-based revitalization. -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?):

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. This provision was not implemented and the result appears to have been thousands of avoidable deaths. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016.

Communications 52

Communications Legislation Implementation Public Health 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. Basically, it's back to the concept of the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. They still haven't.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Development Management Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Note that the in Cleveland supported the development of the HealthLine, a bus rapid transit line serving a number of neighborhoods, including the University Circle district and Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospital system and Downtown. HealthLine in Cleveland.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Public Health Development Education 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

5 This is because the government has put considerable time and resources into developing lower downpayment alternatives that are still of acceptable credit quality to the government agencies that provide most mortgage credit today. But that 20 percent requirement comes from an earlier era. lower downpayment loans (sometimes down to 3 or 3.5

Housing 59

Housing Regulations Government Accountability 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

Social Media 40

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A lot of my thinking about arts revitalization and more generally as an element of a community's culture was influenced by the failure of a bunch of DC arts organizations around 2003-2006. And consider the development of an allied tourism management and development plan, either separately or within the same framework; 3.

Community Development 52

Community Development Nonprofit Development Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

. -- " BTMFBA: the best way to ward off artist or retail displacement is to buy the building ," 2016 -- " BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City ," 2024 -- " New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco ," 2023 -- " A wrinkle on BTMFBA: let the city/county own the cultural facility, while you operate (..)

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Community Development Voting Operations 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

This four-part series addresses the “how” of such a conservatorship exit, i.e., what it will take to actually implement it. In 2016-2017, a policy consensus developed around the idea of keeping F&F rather than replacing them. [1]

Implementation 52

Implementation Legislation Housing Regulations 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Create circuit breakers Get vacant properties back on the tax roll Increase assessment frequency Reduce government spending Raise other taxes Implement a 'millionaire tax' Address appeals I didn't think the solutions were particularly amazing. Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. While much of the U.S.

Transportation 52

Transportation Implementation Public Sector Public Works 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The new right to buy legislation can help shift the balance of power in less well-off areas, where local development has too often meant more betting shops or fast food outlets. But Labours overall communities strategy needs to be considerably fleshed out if its impact is to be transformative.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Local Government Community Development Legislation 52

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It might not feel like it but spending some time and effort solving that dilemma would do wonders to close the policy-implementation gap and make a major investment in lifting trust and legitimacy in the process. And that’s the simple, but difficult purpose of The Possibility Partnertship. But an aspiration worth hanging onto.

Regulations 59

Regulations Public Sector Government Constituents 59