Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 19, 2023

According to the Washington Business Journal (" Metro seeks development partner for Brookland-CUA Metro station "), WMATA is looking for proposals to redevelop two acres it has on the east side of the Brookland Metro Station. There are reasons projects like this take time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Can murals be a gateway to a more developed revitalization program? Often, city arts functions are part of the "economic development" cluster of city agencies. For example, Arts Councils probably need to add some economic development planners. But I'm not sure good the average arts council is on these functions either.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 7, 2024

. -- " Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland) ," 2023 -- " Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ," 2020 -- " Urban decay and sprawl: one community's gain at the expense of another's ," 2011 -- " A brief lesson in "incentivizing" supermarkets and department stores ," 2007 -- " Why it's okay (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I was kinda surprised about the conference, because they were big on examples from Minneapolis and Denver, which have light rail lines or networks, and not the DC area, which has Metrorail and at the time, almost 40 years of experience with transit oriented development. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

How they carry out that duty, therefore, can affect whether they can achieve their sustainable development goals.” Origins of sustainable public procurement The roots of sustainable public procurement have been traced to the 1992 United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.

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California Department of Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Since 2021, Monica has served as Deputy Director of Communications at the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). Continue reading Governor Appoints CDT Deputy Director of Communications & Stakeholder Relations at TechBlog.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This is an extremely significant development in my view. Many of the alternatives listed above could also be developed further via pilot programs before a broad adoption. 1 FSOC was created by the Dodd-Frank Act in response to certain regulatory failings revealed by the financial crisis of 2007-2009. 2 See [link].

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

APRIL 25, 2024

The Importance of Strategy A good strategy provides a clear roadmap, consisting of a set of guiding principles or rules, that defines the actions people in the business should take (and not take) and the things they should prioritize (and not prioritize) to achieve desired goals (Watkins, 2007). 2007, September 10). 2016, February 24).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Renters are changing savings patterns, sparking new developments, and inspiring businesses, from contractors that help out with renovations for renters to high-end fixtures that are easily removed from one dwelling to the next. Sustained high interest rates in the U.S.

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GovLoop

JUNE 16, 2023

Cooke began working for Texas in 2007, when he took a job at the Department of Agriculture, first as a systems analyst and later as a management analyst and project manager. They use data to inform their decisions, develop strategic plans and measurably contribute to the success of the organization.” But this is just the beginning. “By

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 1, 2022

About the Michigan Association of Land Banks : Founded in 2007, the Michigan Association of Land Banks (MALB) works to ensure that the state’s 46 local land banks have the policies, support, and capacity they need to revitalize vacant properties and support the strengthening of Michigan communities. Greg VanWoerkom (R-91).

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The Lowe Down

APRIL 28, 2023

A lack of male educators, earlier female brain development, or favorable school structure prioritizing organization are reasons often cited. We test this hypothesis using measures from Autor, Dorn, and Hanson who quantified each commuting zone’s economic exposure to imports from China during the period from 2000-2007.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It might be that more neighborhood embedded districts, like Eastern Market (" Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market ") or H Street have a better shot at developing the retail offer. Retail store development. But it has to be very focused.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2023

From the article: Meanwhile, from the 1950s through the 1970s, his hometown had undergone the same kind of “urban renewal” that happened across the country with the help of federal Housing and Urban Development and transportation grants. As long as the building remains, you can continue to tell the stories,” Howard says.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Currently, TheBus system is the least well developed of the suburban transit agencies (" By choosing coverage over frequency, Prince George’s caps what its buses can accomplish ," GGW). Change the name of the service and the graphic design of the bus livery.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Denver had produced a plan in 2007 and wanted to update it based on new data as well as to gauge public sentiment on setting more ambitious goals. My education about this critical topic began in 2014, when the City of Denver hired me to plan and facilitate community input sessions on the city’s proposed climate action plan update.

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 5, 2022

In China, there was a 15% decline in Registered Newborn Babies in 2020, and because of this trend, “the country’s population is aging more quickly than most of the world’s developed economies, a hangover from decades of family planning policies” (Bloomberg). births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44; in 2012, the rate was 63.0

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Blog entries -- " Inter-city bus services ," 2009 -- " Intercity bus services are typically a gap in transportation planning ," 2014 Resources -- " Building a better bus hub at Union Station ," Washington Post , 2011 -- " The Navigator: Greyhound, leaving passengers out in the cold ," Washington Post Travel Section , 2014 -- Intercity Bus Program Strategic (..)

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Moving on to the third part, we then exposited our ideas about developing an American grand strategy based on “guarded openness”—a principle that, for example, encourages reaching out widely with ideas about freedom and progress, while still being circumspect about diffusion of advanced information processes and technologies. References.

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Let's Talk Parks

MARCH 2, 2022

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. Develop those thoughtful questions. They’ve had several interviews, and they just can’t land that job. Get Your Foot in the Door So it got me to thinking about my own experience when I graduated College. It took me about two and a half years.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, emerging and distressed commercial districts aren't likely ready for street furniture, and need more assistance in developing organizational capacity, compared to healthy districts, or those in later stages of transition. Policy and practice in public space management depending on the revitalization health of a community.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Third, was the pro-tunnel effort, which failed, and the desire to have a better connection to the Dulles Airport Terminal, more comparable to National Airport (" Winners and losers with the Dulles subway project ," 2007). Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2025

At first, as downtown buildings shut down, office staff and other nonessential workers spent more time in their neighborhoods, which was a boost to businesses, says Tracy Hadden Loh, a fellow at Brookings Metro who tracks commercial real estate and development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

On the morning of November 30, 2007, Rafe Maccarone laid on the grass to catch his breath between warmup runs during school soccer practice. Rafe passed away on December 1, 2007, only a few days before his 16 th birthday. The following diagram (Figure 1) showcases the solution developed by the WWPF and the AWS team.

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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. The 2007 GAO report indicates this has been the historic practice in the title insurance business.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 2, 2023

Magis ( 2010 ) similarly defines it as “the existence, development and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterized by change, uncertainty, unpredictability and surprise” (p. It matters for economic development. Thriving in unpredictable environments. 363) Social capital matters.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

9 With the recently announced anti-trust settlement, will the NAR once again figure out how to technically adhere to the settlement agreement while developing a new method to undermine price competition? 28 It also developed a reputation for racially biased appraisals. ” See [link]. ” [link].

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

328, 342 (2007); see also Saine v. 160A-492 authorizes a county to appropriate funds for “human relations, community action, and manpower development programs.” 160D-1311(a)(2) is more specifically limited in scope to programs related to housing and community development that serve persons of low and moderate income.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. The plans were not connected to anything.

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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.

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Partnership for Public Service

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

While people of color composed nearly one-quarter of the SES as of 2022—a roughly 9% jump from 2007—African Americans made up just over 12% of SES members as of March 2023. Their presence in government helps ensure a diversity of thought and perspectives in the development and implementation of federal policies, practices and procedures.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

Develop carefully targeted programs to determine who will receive subsidies, as well as who will provide the funding for them by paying higher interest rates than required. Lastly, the FHA and VA need to develop quality transparency and reporting to demonstrate how these recommendations are being implemented.

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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. Boykoff, J. Boykoff, J. Boykoff, M.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In short, while it takes a lot of work to restore a vacant historic building, in most instances, the place values (see the book Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development ) are so much greater than if they are ever replaced. Photo: Tom Gralish, Philadelphia Inquirer.

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