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. -- " Snow, winter and the "Sustainable Mobility City" ," (2019) -- " A "maintenance of way" agenda for the walking and transit city ," 2010 -- " Snow reminds us of the necessity of a "maintenance of way" agenda ," 2013 -- " Testimony on the Winter Sidewalk Safety Amendment Act of 2011 ," 2011 -- " Level of service and maintenance requirements in (..)
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Previous years: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Chelsea (23) – I was the W/Th librarian for a few months. Rochester (1) – stopped by to say hello before teaching some online classes.
Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. I should go by this place more often, it’s such a nice library.
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I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.
4, Will Employ 600 People ," WAMU/NPR, 2013): Georgia Avenue NW Fort Totten NE 50 New Jersey Avenue NW The store on New York Avenue never came to be. They built three (" First Walmart Stores In D.C. To Open Dec.
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Many nonprofits use their brands primarily as a fundraising tool, but a growing number of nonprofits are developing a broader and more strategic approach, managing their brands to create greater social impact and tighter organizational cohesion ( Kylander & Stone, 2012 ) attempting to act as catalysts of change in the world.
He’s been the CountyStat manager since 2012. Dave was previously on the podcast in 2013. To learn more about the county’s journey with data-driven decision making and what lessons we can draw for other jurisdictions, we’re joined by Dave Gottesman.
Since then, there’s been a flow of federalism or states’ rights cases heading to the Supreme Court, on a regular basis” (Bomboy, 2013). 2012, April). 2013, July 18). 2013, July 27). 2013, July 30). 2013, July 18). 2013, July 19). 2013, July 17). 2013, July 23). 2013, July 23).
And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite. 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."
I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise. Besides the general TDM approach, utilize other methods to promote transit.
Over the years I've written about the hype about big data and "apps," making the point that there is plenty of "little data" and academic analysis of policy that is already being ignored, despite the richness it offers for improvement in policy and practice. -- " All the talk of e-government, digital government, and open source government is really (..)
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18% of black boys and 10% of black girls received an out-of-school suspension in 2013-14, compared to only 5% of white boys and 2% of white girls, the U.S. Department of Education reports. This disparity appears before students even reach high-school. 48% of preschool children suspended more than once are black.
Is a good example of an arts as production district, anchored by the Aalto school of arts and design, and various other ventures (" Developing Creative Quarters in Cities: Policy lessons from Art and Design City Arabianranta, Helsinki, " Urban Research and Practice , 2013). Large institutional arts districts.
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. -- " Two train/regional transit ideas: Part 1 | Amtrak should acquire Greyhound ," 2021 The fifth is writing on bus transit. -- " Making bus transit service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 --" Will buses ever be cool? They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018.
In 2013, the General Assembly took a similarly restrictive approach when it wanted to remedy what it viewed as a defective 2011 reappraisal in Mecklenburg County. This “mandatory reappraisal advancement” provision applies only to counties with populations of 75,000 or greater.
Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. During much of conservatorship (specifically 2012 to 2019), strangely, capital was depleted by design. Also, the 0.10
This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. That will add to the activation-specialness-fun element of the concept of the Bridge Park.
to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations.
The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)
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But these kinds of efforts are often criticized as inequitable ( Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities , Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara, 2013).
Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I continue to think that I should go by this place more often, it’s such a nice library.
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Klyde Warren Park in Dallas opened in 2012. The year after the park opened, in 2013, the total value of real estate within the district's boundaries was $2.5 Separately, for more than 20 years there has been a proposal to deck over part of DC's Union Station railyard to extend the station. Grant said that total jumped to $6.4
But they serve millions of people, and people deserve high quality service. -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," (2012) -- " Will buses ever be cool? Bus service : bus service is the stepchild in transit systems with a foundation in rail transit.
It's fair to say that in NYC Mayor De Blasio cares a lot less about this than former Mayor Bloomberg (" A Playbook on the Politics of Better Streets ," Bloomberg), and in DC, most elected officials are from "the outer city" where the automobile remains dominant (" DC as a suburban agenda dominated city ," 2013).
One of Ackerman’s examples is the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which hired IDEO in 2013 to redesign the school district’s cafeterias. The failure to implement these ideas resulted from either an inadequate understanding of the problem and/or of the complexities of the institutional and cultural contexts.
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Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). A study by Vragara et al.,
Approximately one year ago, on June 13, 2012, Representative Lisa Brown (D-Bloomfield) uttered the word that runs ice through the veins and casts fear into the hearts of male elected officials: Vagina. Mooney, Christopher (2013). DOI: 10.1177/1532440010391873. Darcy, R (996). Social Science Quarterly , 77(4), 888-898.
3] As CEO of Freddie Mac from 2012 to 2019, I was heavily involved in GSE reform proposals as an insider of the conservatorship. This reputation comes heavily from 2013 to 2015, when a bipartisan effort led by Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Mark Warner (D-VA) and a separate partisan one led by Rep. See [link] ). [3] 7] See [link]. [8]
2, 2012, in Houston. For example, " Making bus service sexy and more equitable " (2012) discusses how investment in bus systems, network breadth and depth, and streetcars is a benefit for the transit dependent. I have thoughts on this in " What is an inclusive city? " (2013) but I can't say it's super specific. 9, in Houston.
8] ) Such crowding in was a stated objective of the conservatorship during the years when Ed DeMarco was acting director (2009 to 2013). 9] ) Congress passed legislation in 2012 that included a 0.10 One result was the FHFA ordering a series of G-fee increases designed to crowd in private capital and thus reduce the size of the GSEs.
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