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Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

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10 ways that governments incentivize cloud use to accelerate digital transformation

AWS Public Sector Blog

These incentives standardize processes and motivate behaviors that achieve the objectives of these initiatives in a way that can be sustained over time. Spain launched the Aporta Initiative in 2009 to open public information and promote data-based development of modern services.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

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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

My problem with it is that they focus on the temporary, while to build an arts as production ecosystem, you need sustained efforts. And while it's very important to focus on building the community of artists, at the sa.me And while it's very important to focus on building the community of artists, at the sa.me

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WMATA "Fleet of the Future" exhibit on the National Mall

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

We took best practices from all over the world — open gangways, more space, better digital screens for real-time information, enhanced video systems to improve safety, a more sustainable aluminum shell, and eye-catching design — and put them in this train,” Metro General Manager and CEO Randy Clarke said in a statement.

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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

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).

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.