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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

WRT bus service improvement see: -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 -- " Will buses ever be cool? Set the opening of the Purple Line as the deadline for the implementation of a full-fledged integrated Night Owl bus network for the DC metropolitan area. But of course, conditions have changed greatly since then.

Transportation

Transportation Public Transportation Communications Implementation

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. The second biggest thing I learned was the need for focused and effective implementation organizations. CDC,s can be such a tool.

Housing

Housing Community Development Development Nonprofit

NonProfits & Branding – The Paradigm Shift

Public Policy Blog

JULY 23, 2013

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.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Fundraising Communications Social Media

Webinars

Municipal Maintenance: Ready, Set, Inspect!

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Intra-district shuttle systems Item # 5 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 2: Program items 1 - 9 ," discusses how to implement an integrated parking-shuttle system in Silver Spring, Maryland. Salt Lake already has a best practice program called Livable Streets , and they are implementing it across the city.

Transportation

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing

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

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

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. And will any change be implemented quickly or perhaps incrementally over several years? Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30

Press Release

Press Release Housing Regulations Implementation

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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.

Economic Development

Economic Development Housing Development Community Development

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. But they weren't particularly well structured or systematic in processes for recommending and implementing improvements.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Development Management Transportation

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

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. Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. That will add to the activation-specialness-fun element of the concept of the Bridge Park.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

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).

Transportation

Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Development

Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In a 2023 MIT Technology Review article , writer and designer Rebecca Ackerman argued that while “design thinking was supposed to fix the world,” organizations rarely implement the ideas generated during the design-thinking process. We reject design thinking as a singular tool kit prescribed to solve social problems.

Implementation

Implementation Leadership Sustainability Public Administration

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

I think this project is a good example of my " best practice revitalization planning " approach, including the elements: a robust plan an implementation organization funding serendipity -- jumping on opportunities, like the National Monument recognition of the length of time required to execute the program Planning relevance.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Housing Elected Officials 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 incoming presidential administration of Donald Trump (Trump II) is now developing key policy priorities to implement once it takes office in January. 23] Conclusion GSE reform, including conservatorship exit and selecting and implementing a post-exit business model, has justifiably developed the reputation for being exceedingly complex.

Legislation

Legislation Housing Campaign Voting

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

WMATA's latest bus improvement program

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

NonProfits & Branding – The Paradigm Shift

Webinars

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

Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

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

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

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

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

Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

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

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

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.

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