Remove 2011 Remove Books Remove Budgeting
article thumbnail

National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

We are not a disparate collection of books,: Today’s libraries function as vibrant community centers that contribute to the social, cultural, and educational fabric of our neighborhoods, enriching the lives of young and old. Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. The four biggest issues these days are: 1.

article thumbnail

National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. I found this bookmark, promoting volunteering in the schools, in a book at a Library book sale. Special Funding.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

budget calculations but intentionally set things up so that the broader financial marketplace believed the government had an obligation to never let the two companies default on their debt; 15 this allowed the marketplace to largely ignore measures of GSE financial strength, in particular their capital ratios. Also, the 0.10

article thumbnail

Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

Professional government employees are vital partners for these officials and do [or should do] the day-to-day operations of the government, procure products and services, supervise, develop budgets for programs and execute tactics outlined in strategy put forth in part by our elected officials. Retrieved from [link]. Overeem, Patrick (2012).

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A few years ago when I was doing research on public markets I came across the book Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food and Community , which posits a more locally controlled and democratically involved regional food system, as opposed to the one we have, dominated by huge corporations. It's an interesting book.

article thumbnail

Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the most important books I read in the late 1980s, pre-Internet, was Maximarketing. Another good book was the Marketing Imagination. And cities have limited budgets and many priorities. And I have to temper my thinking about this too. Its basic point was that you have to focus on all channels, not just some, selectively.