Human Transit

JANUARY 27, 2022

When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together. I had been booked as a speaker at the conference, but Juan Carlos asked if I would come anyway, and do some events around the edges of the crisis. The implementation of Transantiago, however, was a disaster. Not enough new buses had arrived.

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Implementation Translation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

I suppose there is a book out there, modelled after The Town that Food Saved , about the arts. Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts has sponsored other big annual festivals and events, including a book festival and winter light festival.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Housing Development Community Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In his book, “ Buying Time for Heritage ,” first published in 2007 and updated and re-released this fall to explain why and how to operate a revolving fund to save historic buildings, Howard describes the Antiquities Society of the 1970s as largely having run its course.

Housing 52

Housing Nonprofit Transportation Operations 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Policy and practice in public space management depending on the revitalization health of a community. It's worth testing this to see if it has a measurable effect on the reduction of vandalism.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Advocacy Housing Communications 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

A big element of the service is providing free books to children (" Clinic's reading room making a big difference for low-income kids ," KSL-TV) Some library systems have special health and wellness collections. Medaglia was tasked by its then owner, Ascension Health, with closing or selling it.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Public Health Development Education 52

Let's Talk Parks

MARCH 2, 2022

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. I might have a book discussion or a historical discussion, and I’ve got the whole room set up. They’ve had several interviews, and they just can’t land that job. So the workforce was still kind of feeling those effects.

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Parks And Recreation Budgeting Nonprofit Operations 130

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The book Community Economic Development Handbook is very good on microenterprise development and the development of locally owned businesses and the differential impact on the local economy.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Parks And Recreation Housing 52

Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

Located in Missouri, he often updates readers on the state of the city but has been known to go off topic for items such as books and film. He works in the town of Cooper City, Florida and was elected in 2007. This is the personal blog of John Landwehr, mayor of the City of Jefferson and his wife Peggy. Mayor Graham’s View.

Government 40

Government City Manager Budgeting Local Government 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Just before the start of my involvement in revitalization, Kathy Smith created the organization CulturalTourismDC, which focused on building neighborhood-based tourism in the face of the focus of the city's tourism promotion on DC and its place in the National Story/American History.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

As Bligh and Riggio (2013) discuss in the forward of their book exploring this very relationship, Distance shapes the degree in how and to what degree we can and do interact with others; at the most complex level, changing notions of distance are literally morphing our relationships and spheres of influence at a rapidly changing pace.

Social Media 52

Social Media Public Administration Communications Leadership 52

Librarian.net

JANUARY 12, 2025

This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. I started 137 books and finished 135. Here was the Mastodon thread of what I read last year and here’s my 2024 booklist. I didn’t mind it but I might have liked being out doing more other things. I finally managed to read a majority of female and non-binary authors.

Management 52

Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

There are tons of "leadership books" and seminars and articles about leadership lessons from sports team coaches. Sometimes I tell the story of the first project I did at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a report on the presence of a potential carcinogen in alcoholic beverages. But to dig deeper for the right lesson.

Implementation 52

Implementation Leadership Sustainability Public Administration 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

25] Interestingly, prior to the Great Financial Crisis of 2007 to 2008, the GSEs did not do risk-adjusting, reflecting more of a government agency approach (i.e., The result would be a skewed large, high-risk loan book with inadequate revenue to absorb that risk, something very undesirable to regulators.

Government 52

Government Housing Implementation Legislation 52

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Shirky’s “Promise, Tool, Bargain” states that “each success story of using social tools to form groups contained within the book is an example of the complex fusion of ‘a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain with the users” (2008, p. We can easily connect this model to Olson’s collective action theory.

Social Media 40

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots 40