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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In some cases, these foundations or charities are created and operated by private citizens. In other cases, they’re created directly by elected and administrative officials of government organizations, operating as an extension of government agencies yet they engage in fundraising, soliciting private contributions from willing citizen donors.

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Nonprofit Government Fundraising Economic Development

Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

In a market economy for housing, to ensure a place for the economically less well off, that requires public intervention to build, own, and operate housing, as well as other subsidies, such as vouchers for people to pay for private market housing.

Housing

Housing Economic Development Development Community Development

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.

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Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations

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Municipal Maintenance: Ready, Set, Inspect!

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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

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

Transportation

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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.

Management

Management Nonprofit Parks And Recreation Development

Country codes: The global dynamics of domain hosting

Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It shed light on its growing correlation to the intricacies of operating in a centralised global network. 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.

Regulations

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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

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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. Campus Martius beach. They are often strongly branded.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Press Release Strategic Planning Engagement

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 Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). But even before that I went back and forth on it. And if there is a lot of kid visitation, well kids don't spend money. I can't think of a worse walk.

Parks And Recreation

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

Linda Hodges Gallery, whose owner is retiring, and CoCA, which will be operating online only for a while, are among a number of high-profile Pioneer Square galleries that have closed their brick-and-mortar spaces in recent years.

Economic Development

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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.

Transportation

Transportation Campaign Public Health Laws

The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

One, it placed the companies into conservatorship, an obscure legal status in which they would continue to operate, but with their regulator, the FHFA, [3] in operational control of the companies in lieu of their stockholders and boards of directors. However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014.

Legislation

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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? ").

Sustainability

Sustainability Housing Transportation Engagement

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

Pullman was an industrial community, known for being the home of the Pullman railcar operation, which finally went kaput in 1955, although it manufactured cars elsewhere into the 1980s, and was later absorbed by Bombardier. From a publicity brochure published by the Pullman Company. National Monument.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Webinars

Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Country codes: The global dynamics of domain hosting

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

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

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

With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

Parks, access, equity and use

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

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