Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Surprisingly the small community has access to a ton of money, through the generosity of Darla Moore, a hedge fund operator, who grew up there. Many years ago Leimert Park in Los Angeles was featured in the Washington Post as a black-business district (" Los Angeles's Black Pride: Taking In the Retro Vibe of Leimert Park ," places , 2006).

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Death and Taxes

JANUARY 28, 2021

Joe served COST as chief operating officer & senior director, policy. In addition to his operational responsibilities, Joe managed COST’s advocacy program and regularly testified before state legislatures and other state and national policy-making bodies.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Since signing on as city manager for fast-growing Hutto in 2022, Earp has leveraged his passions for leadership, finance and education to help reshape the city’s operations with an emphasis on collaboration. “God’s hand was moving,” Earp says. Howerton, who served Ennis for 32 years before retiring in 2013, became an early mentor to Earp.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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. (" HUD report on D.C. Housing Authority better ," Post ).

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

Anthony has posted operating income nearly every year since. Not unlike "urgent care clinics" and clinic operations in pharmacies like Walgreen's and CVS, their first venture is the creation of a community wellness and "emergency care center" on Broadway Avenue in Downtown Tucson.

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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. Adding a Tysons tram system to that list.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Many shifted to take out operations. But hands down, the easiest bread to bake comes from the recipes by Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery in New York City, first popularized by an article in the New York Times in 2006 --although it took me til 2020 to finally start baking it regularly. Some were good at it, many sucked.

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Emergency Management Degree Guide

APRIL 26, 2013

The bunker was in operation for around 30 years, with a multitude of staff handling tasks like managing telephone and telegraph communications and alerts. And in 2006, Bunker-42 was bought privately and re-purposed as a Cold War museum, restaurant, karaoke bar, conference center and wedding venue.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. Again DC has a great example as c. 2000 it was national best practice in terms of improving streetscapes in commercial districts, significantly boosting success of those areas. They remade it into a full park circle.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Their office is responsible for the effective administration and operation of all municipal services for the entire city. Jeff has kept the blog going since 2006. Elizabeth Fretwell : Not just the subject of Elvis songs, managing the city of Las Vegas, Nevada is no easy task. There are loads of blog entries on students and tourism.

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Government Technology Insider

JANUARY 26, 2023

The HHS provides services and information to millions of Americans every day through their 12 operating divisions, including the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Despite the benefits, both Fletcher and Shopp warn about moving to the cloud without a plan.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). And if there is a lot of kid visitation, well kids don't spend money. They often bring their own food, etc. ( I can't think of a worse walk.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Order N-33-20 (Californians must "stay home or at their place of residence except as needed to maintain continuity of operations of the federal critical infrastructure sectors"); D.C. may continue to operate but must limit all in-person shopping to no more than 10 patrons per establishment"). See, e.g., Cal. But see Maudlin v.

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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(?):

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Public Policy Blog

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

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.

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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

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 (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I think I was ahead of many of those scholars. -- " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept ," (2008, originally 2006) 2. At a planning meeting in 2006, I made the point that bus shelters are key marketing touchpoints for the transit system, that their design and upkeep defines the system.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

BTMFBA, or Buy The Mother F Building Already, is a set of blog entries about how arts groups specifically and nonprofits more generally, need to own their facilities in order to be able to control their futures -- " BTMFBA: the best way to ward off artist or retail displacement is to buy the building ," 2016 -- " BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

I've suggested DC create TMDs since about 2006. They have these odd districts called "performance parking management districts" that are designed to do some of that but there isn't an overall standard of operations, they are more idiosyncratic, creatures of whoever did the plan.

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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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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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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Not so much at the grand philosophical level, although that as well, but more at the operational level of government programs and policies and the way the civil service actually works or doesn’t. Right now that feels a little like the triumph of hope over experience. But an aspiration worth hanging onto.

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