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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But close encounters during the rest of the week were a selling point in the successful campaign to lure the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a new federal research agency known as ARPA-H, to Cambridge, said O’Connell, the MassBio CEO. Cultural Quarters as Mechanisms for Urban Regeneration.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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10 Interesting Facts About the History of Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

It is also at this time that politician’s begin a very loose version of campaigning to expose ideas and platforms in order to gain a place in office. Machiavelli also established leadership qualities in subordinates. At this time, the Greek people begin electing their leaders and become educated on social services.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. Image: Wikipedia. Campbell, C., & Peters, B. Governance, 1 (1), 79-99. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1988.tb00060.x.

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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

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning. In the past there was nowhere for this kind of sentiment to go. Now it collects, solidifies and expresses itself online.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

Right from the start of his campaign cycle up to his end, social media will have played a key part in his role as leader and figurehead. ” Take a look at previous #SOTU (2009 – present) observations from Pew Center for Research. Look out world. Why or why not? Sound off below.