Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

All the pundits say the biggest problem is the lack of a regularized funding source, like property tax or sales tax (" DC area transit commission board member thinks he has a brilliant idea on how to fund Metrorail: sales taxes ," 2022; " Metrolinx Toronto: 25 potential tools to fund transit-transportation infrastructure ," 2013).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Also see: -- " To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network) ," 2022 Brightline as an opportunity to improve transit in Florida cities, using the Transformational Projects Action Planning Approach.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It was supposed to go to Virginia Beach, but with opposition they cut that part from the project, expecting that once the system started operating, there'd be a clamoring to expand (" As light rail nears in Norfolk, Virginia Beach begins to reconsider previous decisions to not participate ," 2009).

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 29, 2023

Photo: Center for Community Progress Long before the Cuyahoga Land Bank Authority (CLB) came onto the scene in 2009 to help tackle Cleveland’s inventory of vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties , Anita Gardner was driving change in her community. In 2022, Crooked Branch Farm had the honor of being named one of the U.S.

Housing 52

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Entries more than doubled from the inaugural 2022 edition, with 334 nominations from 63 countries across six continents. In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs. She served as executive director from its formation until 2020.

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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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The FHFA then indicated that it ended this delay and began to employ the newer, higher capital requirement approach beginning in 2022. Individual GSE public financial disclosures do, however, indicate there may have been a modest increase during 2022 (i.e., What about the average G-fee in 2022? percent to 0.49

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. DC invests, half heartedly in people, not in place. Another link.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 5, 2025

Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I continue to think that I should go by this place more often, it’s such a nice library.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 12, 2025

average read per month: 11.25 average read per week: 2.6 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2009 and a couple times afterwards, I said it was necessary for WMATA to rebuild the regional/metropolitan consensus about support for transit. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. Many people make the point that lack of dedicated funding is why the system is in failure mode.

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