Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

APRIL 24, 2022

Everyday risk factors are different when floods, transportation crashes, landslides, toxic spills, structural collapses occur against a background of asymmetric warfare, armed insurgency, fighting or rampant terrorism. History, of course, continues to be made, both as events and as some form of human social development.

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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? Currently, TheBus system is the least well developed of the suburban transit agencies (" By choosing coverage over frequency, Prince George’s caps what its buses can accomplish ," GGW). And with that I had to laugh.

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Transportation Public Transportation Communications Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I was kinda surprised about the conference, because they were big on examples from Minneapolis and Denver, which have light rail lines or networks, and not the DC area, which has Metrorail and at the time, almost 40 years of experience with transit oriented development. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning."

Housing 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. Lots of deaths.

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Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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. Exhibition Road in London is much better design-wise ( Guardian review , 2012). But I suppose it is a start.

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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 52

Economic Development Development Transportation Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store. The site was originally approved for a mixed use development with 400+ apartments above, which would have generated more income, sales, and property tax revenues for the city.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park. And this need for community communication should be lesson for transportation departments more generally.

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Transportation Sustainability Communications Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 4, 2022

And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. " DC should get on the bandwagon.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Today, as more than 1,000 leaders, customers, partners and developers across the public and private sectors join us at our Google Cloud Summit ‘18 in Washington, DC, we are taking a look at the public sector’s move to the public cloud. They have realized $32.5M in total cost avoidance as a result.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2.

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Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc. New York City has since developed many such groups for parks and and business districts.

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Parks And Recreation Public Administration Housing Budgeting 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

an urban design dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. I argue that a lot of urban policy was developed when cities where losing population and stabilization was the primary goal, staunching outmigration. historic architecture 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. I suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. Stuff I suggested over the years.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

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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Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

In fact, light rail here in Salt Lake was spurred by the 2002 Olympics, it's a small system and doesn't go to all the places it should, but it's complemented by a developing commuter rail program, a dinky streetcar line on the south side of Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, and a decent enough bus system.

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Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

From a PI blog entry in 2015 : The Navy Yard development is home to GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Outfitters, a Marriott and about 140 other companies. Another two million square feet is slated to be developed and the previous feasibility study estimated about 8,000 people would use rail service by 2045. About 13,000 people work there.

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Transportation Development Economic Development Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Note that Atlanta, BART, and Miami had problems of their own--certain suburban counties refused to participate for both Atlanta and BART, and Miami's route planners designed the system to serve areas they wanted to develop, rather than to ensure that service was also provided to key activity centers. That could have been accomplished already.

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Transportation Public Transportation Sustainability Development 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

Stabilisation was due to give way to peacekeeping and development when the earthquake struck the country and abruptly reversed the gains achieved. [i] Shelter may be 'innovative' or 'inspiring' to an architect from a highly developed country, but it could equally be detestable and impractical to the potential user. i] Muggah, R.

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Social Media Public Affairs Development Security 69

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 52

Sustainability Housing Transportation Engagement 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This reminds me that when Toronto did an urban grayfield development project in the 1970s, creating the St. Interestingly, years ago I wrote about the DC Zoning Commission allowing developers to opt out of providing recreation space. . -- " Keeping families in cities: safety; schools; space + money ," 2015 Or true mixed use.

Public Safety 52

Public Safety Parks And Recreation Housing Campaign 52

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). I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s. That's 6 months!

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