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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes. Above: Multiplicity bus.

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Madison Wisconsin should be rethinking its pedestrian "district"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The university’s $6 million plan looks good so far, with a fundraising campaign on the way. Plans for a redesign of the State Street commercial corridor in downtown Ann Arbor as presented to the city's Transportation Commission by the Downtown Development Authority and SmithGroup in January 2022. But I suppose it is a start.

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. On this basis, we went ahead to establish and develop the IJDRR. The biggest risk is superficiality in one's understanding of the research and the new developments in one's field.

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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The parents have been hyper about speeding cars, and the neighborhood and our District 6 Councilmember is more concerned about traffic safety these days because a nearby elementary school had a traffic fatality last year (" Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023).

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Can murals be a gateway to a more developed revitalization program? Often, city arts functions are part of the "economic development" cluster of city agencies. For example, Arts Councils probably need to add some economic development planners. But I'm not sure good the average arts council is on these functions either.

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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

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

Professional government employees are vital partners for these officials and do [or should do] the day-to-day operations of the government, procure products and services, supervise, develop budgets for programs and execute tactics outlined in strategy put forth in part by our elected officials. Overeem, Patrick (2012). doi:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1988.tb00060.x.