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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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(?):

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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). There is no guarantee of public policy change as a result of powerful new social movements. O’Hara (2010, p.

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

588, 592-93 (1872) (nonperformance excused when occasioned by act of law); see also Sch. while] [o]ther courts simply conclude that the duty to perform is excused or discharged because performance would violate public policy." Harrington v. Dennie , 13 Mass. 93, 94 (1816); Mis. & Tenn. Green , 56 Tenn. of Olyphant v.

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The power of the connecting middle: where policy, delivery and democracy meet (and often don’t)

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

The second strand is my continuing investment in the patient slog that is public sector and public policy reform, in this case informed by following the work of Jennifer Pahlka. Right now that feels a little like the triumph of hope over experience. But an aspiration worth hanging onto.