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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

The implementation of Transantiago, however, was a disaster. When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together. In any case, the messy implementation doesn’t mean the reform wasn’t worth doing. Not enough new buses had arrived. Not all the necessary technology was ready.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?)

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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

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.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There are tons of "leadership books" and seminars and articles about leadership lessons from sports team coaches. The failure to implement these ideas resulted from either an inadequate understanding of the problem and/or of the complexities of the institutional and cultural contexts. But to dig deeper for the right lesson.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The core claim made by critics is that the changes, implemented on May 1, are a mechanism for a new and major economic cross-subsidy from less risky borrowers to more risky ones. Used by more than a thousand primary lenders, this grid is of adequate accuracy while being practical for those lenders to implement.