A Library Writer's Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Digital storytelling is exemplified by the development of empowering personal and community-based narratives through openly-available digital media technologies. For instance, how do the six frames of the ACRL Framework, and related knowledge practices and dispositions inform the development of well-researched digital narratives?

Education 40

Education Public Affairs Development Accountability 40

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The current edition came out in 2011.). This last theory I found particularly intriguing – especially given my interest in mapping as a tool for strategy development. After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004).

Strategic Planning 40

Strategic Planning Public Administration Nonprofit Engagement 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students , Washington State Department of Transportation -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State Department of Transportation -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Transportation Engagement Fundraising 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Rioting and looting occurred in London in 2011 and in Concepcion, Chile, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami. The intentions are laudable, as DRR needs to be democratised if it is to function.

Laws 52

Laws Management Translation Community Engagement 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes. NYC sponsors(ed?)

Transportation 96

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing 96

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JULY 18, 2023

In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. Supporting rural grocery stores has been a target of federal funding through the USDA’s Healthy Foods Financing Initiative (HFFI), first authorized in 2014. Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI).

Community Development 86

Community Development Development Nonprofit Economic Development 86

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

Development 40

Development Economic Development Community Development Public Health 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

Press Release 52

Press Release Housing Regulations Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Who wants to hang out by a freeway?

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 8, 2024

And complaints about being under-amenitized on the West Side center around a conspiracy against POC but because of lack of population and commercial centers, and historical developments--the west side population was close to downtown anyway, which was the regional business and retail center before sprawl. Chinatown ," Washington Post , 2011).

Housing 52

Housing Development 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. The plans were not connected to anything.

Communications 52

Communications Legislation Implementation Public Health 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability 52

Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Several decades ago, when we first developed a passion for performance management, we leaned upon a cadre of people who were pioneering in that work. Washington, DC: IBM Center for The Business of Government. Managing Performance: Robert Behn (2014). Davies (2011). Jarvenpaa and Thomas H. Davenport , (2008).

Government 52

Government Accountability Budgeting Leadership 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

My work in Baltimore County also led to the development of my "Signature Streets" concept, as a way of unifying thinking about streets, mobility, and aesthetics, not just in counties but in cities too. By focusing on key concepts that "I've developed" here's a list. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic. That's not the case.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

Quarantelli and Dynes (1970) developed a three-stage model whereby property norms are progressively abandoned as a neighbourhood descends into an outbreak of uncontrolled looting. 2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures.

Social Media 52

Social Media Communications Management Development 52