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Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

A Reddit thread complains about the quality of snow removal in DC (" Has DC's snow removal gone downhill? "), and it covers some of the same issues that got me writing those posts starting in 2009 (also my experience then working as a bicycle and pedestrian planner for Baltimore County).

Transportation

Transportation Sustainability Housing Management

Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It just reflects their net worth increasing steadily since the government allowed the two GSEs to retain their earnings beginning in mid-2019. I have found, in a variety of recent articles, the 10 to 15 percent range for housing price declines (i.e., 11] This excludes a 0.10

Housing

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

From the article: Philadelphia ranks fourth in the country in the average daily number of pedestrians downtown -- behind New York City, Chicago and Boston. Action News has been going through some of the new data and found that foot traffic in the heart of Center City reached 83% of 2019 levels, while residents reached 126%.

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DC Artomatic is a big arts exhibition: but not oriented to building the arts and culture ecosystem long term

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 7, 2024

And while it's very important to focus on building the community of artists, at the sa.me

Sustainability

Sustainability 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). Again, I think this is community building. Pittsburgh.

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How will low-code tech shape the future?

Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In a recent article, Gartner identified investments in digitalisation as a way for businesses to prepare for an economic recession. Latest ONS figures show that the UK’s output per hour growth between 2009 – 2019 was the second lowest of the G7 countries. This is where low-code tech comes in.

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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

From the article: The past few months have been tough for many passengers using bus stations and curbside spots across the country. Note in my typology on the transit network at multiple scales (" Reprint (with editing): The Meta-Regional Transit Network ," 2009), a commenter had to point out to me that I failed to include buses.

Transportation

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

Louis regional transit planning process as a model for what needs to be done in the DC Metropolitan region " (2009) DC area transit planning and operations is an extreme example of gaps. The concept of a multi-regional and multi-state transit network is outlined in " The meta-regional transit network " (2009).

Transportation

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

From the article: Meanwhile, a few hundred feet away, Pioneer Square mainstays Linda Hodges Gallery and the Center on Contemporary Art are celebrating a different milestone: their last First Thursday Art Walk. Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed.

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Richard's Rules for Restaurant-Based Revitalization: New business models are needed for 2025

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2025

Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post) The Washington Post has an article, " Its just not sustainable: D.C. emphasis added] The article touches on drops in revenues. Brookland's Finest revenue is half what it was in 2019. Back when we lived in DC, we were patrons. But now youre dropping $250 for four at a mediocre restaurant.

Elected Officials

Elected Officials Sustainability Public Policy Accountability

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Released in 2019, GOV.BR The AWS Institute creates a library of guides, videos, and articles featuring insights and best practices shared by public sector leaders to help their peers accelerate their transformation programs. has become an indispensable service and is part of Brazilians’ daily lives.

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Government Public Sector Leadership Education

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Crime Given urban crime problems in general and specifically in DC--I remember the worst of the murders in the 1990s, the crack epidemic (" Rayful Edmond's death reminds me of my introduction to Washington, DC ") etc., it's no wonder I have written a lot about crime.

Transportation

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

5 From 2014 through 2019, however, the average G-fee increasingly became based upon a well-established financial markets concept: 6 to generate, after covering expenses, a proper market return (also known as the “cost of capital”) on the capital that is required to support the risks being taken in the business.

Press Release

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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

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

Transportation

Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability

Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Note that before the book, there was an article in Fortune Magazine , " Downtown is for people " ( pdf ). Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. It's a very important book, about the recentralization of metropolitan areas focused on center city revival. Great images.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points.

Parks And Recreation

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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. I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Master Plan contract, 2019. Postcard image.

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

From the second article: The goals of the future hospital, he said, are to provide meaningful economic impact to the west side by employing residents who live near the facility, and to improve the health of a city that faces lower life expectancy and higher rates of serious conditions compared with the overall county.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Public Health Development Education

Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Agglomeration economies and the biotech cluster in Cambridge Massachusetts.The Globe article explains why I am such a proponent of face to face, cluster development and agglomeration economies. Attendance at Thursday night programs and networking events at Venture Care have drawn an average of 419 people this fall, up from353 in 2019.

Development

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The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Part 2: Charter-defect Reforms

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

This assumption was also made later in the first Trump administration’s Housing Reform Plan issued in 2019 in the case of reform by administrative means. For simplicity, in this article, I am assuming “capital” equals the net worth of F&F. [15] Continuing the PSPA was viewed as good policy for three reasons.

Implementation

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Revisiting entries: Should community culture master plans include elements on higher education arts programs?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This article was published in 2016, " Should community culture master plans include elements on higher education arts programs? ," and the next year there was a brief follow up on the for profit arts school sector. Apparently, UAS enrollment had dropped by more than half since 2009. Arts building portfolios. She has to be convinced.

Education

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic. By focusing on key concepts that "I've developed" here's a list. Railroad passenger services and the Purple Line are separated out. I see they're updating their plan.) Advertising supplement to the Washington Star, 1975. WMATA: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

Transportation

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Public Administration Today

Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

DC Artomatic is a big arts exhibition: but not oriented to building the arts and culture ecosystem long term

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

How will low-code tech shape the future?

Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Richard's Rules for Restaurant-Based Revitalization: New business models are needed for 2025

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

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

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

Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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

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

Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Part 2: Charter-defect Reforms

Revisiting entries: Should community culture master plans include elements on higher education arts programs?

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

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