Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Read on to meet the writers, who will contribute two articles each month to GovLoop until July. You can begin reading their articles here.) Sandra is a best-selling author, podcast host and writes career coaching articles for Forbes and other industry magazines. in Symbolic Systems and a coterminal M.A.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) High water levels in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. As a result, Sugar House Park was rebuilt in part as a flood control structure. Fortunately this is an infrequent occurrence.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). I need not repeat them here. The manifestation of community may simply be an expression of the will of the powerful. Disaster subcultures.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs. blocks from a light rail station.

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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 6, 2023

This view has been expressed by many members of current and former White Houses, and is a central tenet of the Partnership’s Center for Presidential Transition.® The book includes 30 declassified transition memos about Bush administration policies from 2008 and 2009 and made public for the first time.

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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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). In a historical context, when viewing the snapshot of their nascent birth, we can see the peak of OWS has slightly more interest in America than searches for the TPM did during the groups’ peak in 2009” (Parrillo, 2011).

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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 ). It's a very important book, about the recentralization of metropolitan areas focused on center city revival. I actually have the original magazine--from an estate sale in Bethesda, found by Suzanne, not me, but it's in DC. Great images.

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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. We did this in 2008 or 2009. 2006 and beyond, although what it's become is perhaps far beyond what I suggested, " Retail planning and Florida Market ," 2009. Anselm's is today.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. From the article: Surveying the 30-plus public gardens, arboretums, historical landscapes, and support groups that comprise Greater Philadelphia Gardens, consulting firm Econsult Solutions added up the digits and found an economic impact of $256 million a year, a big boon for the tourism industry.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

” He briefly outlines how the SOTU has evolved with advancing mediums and with an ever more discerning American public: Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution tells us this: The President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union.”. No small feat. Not a West Wing fan? Why or why not?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It's a model for how I'd like to extend Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City, which abuts a section of I-80 that is about 40 acres. For all of us seeking to create freeway decks, the Dallas Morning News has an article about Klyde Warren, " How Klyde Warren Park brought Dallas together." Construction began in late 2009.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2025

I've written about this, " Daypart and age-group planning in mixed use (commercial) districts " 2009), partly in response to a W ashington Post article (but there were others), " Residents of Washington's U Street Corridor Tired of Area's Growing Noise." 30 cocktails (" D.C.s

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

From the article: In a classic 1980 essay called What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? , Magazine -- " Women's Place: Urban Planning, Housing Design, and WorkFamily Balance ," Fordham Law Review -- " Women in the Urban Environment ," Signs Vol. Land use planning and architecture. 3, Supplement. Keith Bedford for The New York Times.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

I should have been a professor and written this up as journal articles--which have much more longevity than a blog post, but c'est la vie. He then mentioned a New York Times Magazine article, " The Myth of Community Development ," by Nicholas Lemann about why community development corporations mostly didn't succeed at improving neighborhoods.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

Introduction The most discussed topic in housing finance policy in the last few months has been whether and when the second Trump administration (Trump II) might end the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F), the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How real is Dark Enlightenment, and does whats happening in the White House now have any serious ties to it? But that was back in 2009. Then there are the various Musk statements, like this one: I think its a false dichotomy to look at government and sort of industry as separate...government government is...

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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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This means the current administration has the power to make changes in GSE mortgage programs and policies that could materially impact large numbers of current and prospective homeowners, as well as the mortgage and housing industries. First, the White House can tell the FHFA what to do in as much detail as it chooses.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Sometime ago, I came across some journal articles about boycotts against streetcar segregation around the turn of the century in the South, including Richmond (" Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African-American Citizenship in the Age of Plessy v. But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

But I don't recall these articles discussing airplanes also having to negotiate airspace with military helicopters on training missions from various bases along the Potomac River, like Fort Belvoir, the duty station for the helicopter involved in the crash.

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