A Look At The Final Designs For DC's 11th Street Bridge Park
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
I was on the design review committee for this initiative back in 2014--10 years ago! From DC Urban Turf.
2022 in Libraries
Librarian.net
JANUARY 2, 2023
Previous years: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Fairlee (1) – I was in town for a conference and stopped by. Hartness/Randolph (1) – Stopped by when I was in a walki I miss this place.
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2021 in Libraries
Librarian.net
JANUARY 1, 2022
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.
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2023 reading list and commentary
Librarian.net
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
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.
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2023 in Libraries
Librarian.net
JANUARY 5, 2024
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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2021 reading list and commentary
Librarian.net
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.
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2022 reading list and commentary
Librarian.net
JANUARY 2, 2023
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.
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Uber: criminal?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 14, 2022
Hailo didn't last long (" Hailo Shuts Down: How Taxi Drivers Sabotaged a Golden Opportunity and Handed Uber and Lyft the Keys ," Frommers, 2014). That's the advantage of "disruptive innovation," you just do it, rather than trying to convince existing firms to join up.
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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
Poster board from the 2014 meetings. And it turns out I had written something similar in 2007!!!!!! -- " It's time to create the "Port Authority" of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties " That was true in 2014 and 2007, and is still true in 2022. CDC,s can be such a tool.
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Winter snow clearance in the Walking City
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 8, 2025
. -- " 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 (..)
DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 4, 2022
The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. "
Using food banks to fight diabetes and promote health for vulnerable populations: An interview with Dr. Hilary Seligman, Professor, University of California, San Francisco – Episode #102
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
DECEMBER 12, 2015
Between 2012 and 2014, researchers enrolled almost 700 food pantry clients with diabetes in a six-month pilot intervention in three states. Can food banks be used to address diet-sensitive disease in low-income communities? A new study of a pilot intervention suggests they can.
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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 27, 2024
," 2023 -- " DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project ," 2022 -- " The Anacostia River and considering the bridges as a unit and as a premier element of public art and civic architecture ," 2014 -- " DC has a big "Garden Festival" opportunity in the Anacostia River ," 2014 -- " A world class water/environmental education center at Poplar Point as another (..)
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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2023
I ended up writing many entries on the issue: -- " Walmart: in the city, vs. of the city ," 2011 -- Lessons from Walmart's foray into DC ," 2011 -- Wal-mart plays hardball with DC ," 2013 -- What community benefits are supposed to be versus what people think they are about ," 2013 -- " More Walmart in DC ," 2013 -- " 6Ps, Walmart in DC and "I hate (..)
What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
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.
Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 12, 2023
In turn that would help to spur development of the Pepco power plant site, which stopped producing electricity in 2012, and Benning Road further east, and Minnesota Avenue. Other areas too.)
30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
The broader community of Public Management scholars should be paying attention to these relational shifts and trends, and must embrace research that reveals new insights about government-nonprofit relationships. References. LeRoux, Kelly. Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development? Journal of Urban Affairs , 34 (1): 65-80.
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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 4, 2023
the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," 2018 As urban neighborhoods become more desirable at the scale of the metropolitan residential choice landscape , prices will go up, and people who had been able to afford to live there will be outbid.
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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2023
. -- " 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.
What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 9, 2022
I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place.
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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.
Country codes: The global dynamics of domain hosting
Open Access Government - Technology News
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Over the years, thanks to Tokelau’s cheap and easy registration process, the revenue generated from their domain sales has seen a massive rise in their GDP, which, in 2012, had the lowest GDP output in the entire world. In 2022, the island of Tuvalu made an estimated $10 million from the income of its.tv country code.
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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
percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49
Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 26, 2024
Waverly Market Pete Seeger tribute singalong, Columbia Heights Plaza, Washington, DC, 2/1/2014 Sometimes plazas are poorly placed, like Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, so it often goes unused. DC's Franklin Square is more centrally located, but wasn't designed for such a function.
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
Or years ago, I suggested Morgan State should have relocated its architecture school to the Station North Arts district in Baltimore. -- " Morgan State University should move their architecture and planning school to Downtown/Station North Arts District ," 2014 Howard could do something similar. When it was in the commercial district. "
Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
I argue this was because the DC side was full of hubris--we have the city's interests at the foremost they intimated, and because they failed to think in the slightest in how to make the argument about how the current residents would benefit.
Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 10, 2024
hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post And because we don't provide actionable information and the structures to address the problem.
With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 19, 2023
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 (..)
Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
JULY 29, 2019
2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Haynes 2012. Bird et al. Bilham 2011.
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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
I've mentioned this for years (" Social marketing and aberrant driving ," 2020, " When the car lobby encourages law breaking ," 2012), but only recently after some high profile deaths is the city addressing this (" Reckless drivers in spotlight as D.C. Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.
Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
AUGUST 20, 2021
ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. [i] Muggah, R. The effects of stabilisation on humanitarian action in Haiti. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii] Haiti After the Earthquake. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp. iii] Abrahams, D.
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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014. A: Starting in 2012, the FHFA began to systematically correct the defects in the GSE business model while they were still in conservatorship, rather than maintaining the status quo year after year while waiting for Congress to someday pass legislation.
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2024 in Libraries
Librarian.net
JANUARY 5, 2025
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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2024 reading list and commentary
Librarian.net
JANUARY 12, 2025
average read per month: 11.25 average read per week: 2.6 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.
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Parks, access, equity and use
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
I have a post about this related to biking (" Revisiting assistance programs to get people biking: 18 programs "), this piece about bus transit (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012), and this about district-focused transportation programming (" What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like? ").
Who Gets Elected?
ASPA National Weblog
OCTOBER 13, 2016
Here in America, only about 5 percent of Americans give the maximum amount possible to any candidate and, in 2012, 132 Americans gave 60 percent of all the Super Pac money spent. Globally, the 62 richest billionaires own and control as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population.
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Revitalization in a distressed residential-industrial neighborhood: Pullman, Chicago, Illinois
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 14, 2024
I ended up writing many entries on the issue: -- " Walmart: in the city, vs. of the city ," 2011 -- " Lessons from Walmart's foray into DC ," 2011 -- " Wal-mart plays hardball with DC ," 2013 -- " What community benefits are supposed to be versus what people think they are about ," 2013 -- " More Walmart in DC ," 2013 -- " 6Ps, Walmart in DC and "I (..)
Wizards and Capitals teams staying in DC after all and the failure of the mansion tax referendum in Chicago have one thing in common: failure to take the time to build consensus
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2024
Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). There are plenty of other examples.
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