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Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

The city stays on top of road snow clearance, most households shovel their sidewalks, and I don't know what the city does for separated bike lanes--which aren't close to my house, and these days I am unable to bike anyway.

Transportation

Transportation Sustainability Housing Management

Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The group organized in 2013 to try to prevent the kind of displacement that has traditionally followed many Metro stations and new transit lines across the country. Also see " Op-Ed in Washington Post about preserving affordable housing in the Purple Line corridor (Department of Duh) " from earlier in the year on the same topic.

Housing

Housing Community Development Development Nonprofit

The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail. Not mixed commercial use.

Public Safety

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

I was involved in opposing the Walmart that ended up being built up the street from my house -- and ironically a second Walmart was built 1.25 miles from our house in Fort Totten, making our area likely the most densely served by Walmart of any other area in the US. But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS! To Open Dec.

Elected Officials

Elected Officials Laws Housing Transportation

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

Transportation

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Revitalization in a distressed residential-industrial neighborhood: Pullman, Chicago, Illinois

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. NPS Photo/Stephanie Schneider.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Housing Elected Officials Development

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

nd building awareness and interest in the institution and the community (" House of Art(s) to open at the Springfield Art Museum ," Springfield News-Leader ), " Drury Students to help with De-Installation of Springfield Art Museum Exhibit ," Ozarks First, " Space as event as ouevre ," Gerard Nadeau). Again, I think this is community building.

Economic Development

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Operations Transportation Sanitation

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. Uncleared sidewalks from 1300 East to Sugar House Park. Levels of Service at the scale of an individual park is an issue with Sugar House Park. Technically.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Public Administration Housing Sanitation

Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

Economic Development

Economic Development Development Transportation Government

Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Given the limitations on local property tax solutions, some neighborhood affordable housing organizations have encouraged the General Assembly to expand the Machinery Act’s existing property tax exemptions for homeowners. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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.

Transportation

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning

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)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

Press Release

Press Release Housing Regulations Implementation

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

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.,

Social Media

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots

V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

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. Image: Washington Post. Following the *audacity* that Rep. Brown used a biological, anatomical, even “medical” [gasp!]

Legislation

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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. Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. Anselm's is today. Postcard image.

Nonprofit

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. 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. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development

2024 in Libraries

Librarian.net

JANUARY 5, 2025

Totally a homebody this year; seventy library visits and most of them within a half mile of my house. Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. I liked working at my library.

Housing

The story of the freeway deck park in Dallas, Klyde Warren Park

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Klyde Warren Park in Dallas opened in 2012. It's a model for how I'd like to extend Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City, which abuts a section of I-80 that is about 40 acres. The year after the park opened, in 2013, the total value of real estate within the district's boundaries was $2.5 Grant said that total jumped to $6.4

Economic Development

Economic Development Housing Parks And Recreation Development

The GSEs and the Incoming Trump Administration: Part 1 of 2 – Answering Ten Key Questions About Conservatorship Exit

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

The possibility of a GSE conservatorship exit has sparked considerable media attention, particularly in housing and mortgage industry circles. Is the not-yet-nominated director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) the key to conservatorship exit? Separately, Trump II has the ability to directly reshape GSE mortgage policies.

Legislation

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Impact of proposed transit cuts at SEPTA/Philadelphia presented in graphically compelling ways

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 25, 2025

From the standpoint of "those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, some Pennsylvania Republicans are recommending privatization (" Idea to privatize SEPTA floats around the State House amid funding crisis ," Fox29). The proposal focuses on bus services, not the entire system.

Budgeting

Budgeting Economic Development Operations Government

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

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.

Transportation

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development

Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Now the Intermodal Center just houses intercity bus services. -- Rio Grande Plan The plan proposes a tunnel to redirect the railroad passenger services back to the station, as well as a rerouting of the Trax Green Line, with railroad service in a tunnel behind the station and light rail service in front of the station.

Transportation

Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Elected Officials

The GSEs and the Second Trump Administration: Ten Possible Mortgage Program and Policy Changes to Expect (Part 2 of 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This means the current administration has the power to make changes in GSE mortgage programs and policies that could materially impact large numbers of current and prospective homeowners, as well as the mortgage and housing industries. First, the White House can tell the FHFA what to do in as much detail as it chooses.

Housing

Housing Legislation Policy Objective Implementation

The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Recapitalization (Part 3 of 4)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 28, 2025

One of the most discussed topics in housing finance policy in recent months has been whether and when the second Trump administration (Trump II) might end the 16-year conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F), the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). billion outstanding.

Implementation

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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.

Transportation

Transportation Public Transportation Laws Campaign

Public Administration Today

Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Trending Sources

The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

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

Revitalization in a distressed residential-industrial neighborhood: Pullman, Chicago, Illinois

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

Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

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

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

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

2024 in Libraries

The story of the freeway deck park in Dallas, Klyde Warren Park

The GSEs and the Incoming Trump Administration: Part 1 of 2 – Answering Ten Key Questions About Conservatorship Exit

Impact of proposed transit cuts at SEPTA/Philadelphia presented in graphically compelling ways

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

The GSEs and the Second Trump Administration: Ten Possible Mortgage Program and Policy Changes to Expect (Part 2 of 2)

The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Recapitalization (Part 3 of 4)

African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

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