2009, 2013 and Sustainability - Public Administration Today

Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

I used to write yearly about this, focusing on how the sustainable mobility centric city needs snow removal policies that co-equally privilege walking, biking and transit users, not just the motor vehicle parts of roads. Back then it was Mayor Fenty's Administration that failed.

Transportation

Transportation Sustainability Housing Management

What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. Years ago, Arlington County, Virginia used to sponsor a sustainable mobility expo. I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal.

Transportation

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing

Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). The intentions are laudable, as DRR needs to be democratised if it is to function. I need not repeat them here. Statler and R.

Laws

Laws Management Translation Community Engagement

Webinars

Municipal Maintenance: Ready, Set, Inspect!

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations.

Transportation

Transportation Housing Sustainability Management

Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Petersburg Metropolitan Area ," 2017).

Transportation

Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability

Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A core focus of the Future of Government Awards is the importance of open source,” said Joe Hooper, director of the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development. And this range can have important multiplier effects in expanding the use of existing and proven digital solutions. “A

Government

Government Public Sector Leadership Education

WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

Transportation

Transportation Social Media Fundraising Development

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My entry on arts districts and arts as consumption versus arts as production is about this kind of approach (" Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" ," originally 2009, revised 2019). By agenda I mean the set of challenges which policy makers accord priority. The state later developed its own program.

Economic Development

Economic Development Housing Development Community Development

Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Development Management Transportation

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

From the article: “To be good in the business of football today — and good to me is not being good one year, but try to sustain it year in and year out — you have to understand economics and you have to understand value,” Kraft said near the end of his team’s almost-magical 2007 season. “I

Implementation

Implementation Leadership Sustainability Public Administration

The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. sustainable mobility. But these kinds of efforts are often criticized as inequitable ( Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities , Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara, 2013). civic assets need to be available.

Public Safety

Public Safety Parks And Recreation Housing Campaign

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

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.

Social Media

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots

Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Webinars

To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

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

Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

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

The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

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.

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