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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This one is from February 2014. But it took until 2011 to begin to see a significant uptick in population. Another area that I would chalk up to a failure of planning leadership is the discussion of proposed changes to the height limit law. I chalk that up to a failure of leadership and approach. The Height Limit discussions.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Meehan, 2014). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no.

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

731, 735 (2011)). 6:12-CV-1697-Orl-37DAB, 2014 WL 3908187 (M.D. 11, 2014); McCarthy v. In short, “the law does not require the officer to wait until the approaching animal is within biting distance or is leaping at him before taking protective action.” at 287 (quoting Ashcroft v. al-Kidd , 563 U.S. Afdahl , 933 F.3d

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." Hailo didn't last long (" Hailo Shuts Down: How Taxi Drivers Sabotaged a Golden Opportunity and Handed Uber and Lyft the Keys ," Frommers, 2014).

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And an area of DC law that offered a way to oppose the entry -- the environmental impact law -- was underdeveloped, and those lawyers who were willing to oppose except for JOBS! weren't sophisticated enough to follow that line of reasoning.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

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.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions ," (2012) -- " (Even more on) ANCs (Advisory Neighborhood Commissions in DC) ," (2010) -- " Setting up DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions for success ," (2022) (lots of links within) -- " "Networked solutions" for some problems with ANCs in DC ," (2011) -- " Dumb. gentrification crisis?