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Highlights from the 2024 AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since 2012, AWS has invested more than AU$9.1 As an example, Rouse pointed to how the Local Government of Association of Queensland and Carpentaria Shire Council are leveraging AI for flood detection and monitoring of roads and public safety in the remote Australian Outback. billion by 2027. billion over the next 12-15 years.

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Bicyclist deaths-bicycle safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But I was thinking that there needs to be some highly visible defensive cycling classes in public plazas and parks around the city, to build the understanding of how to cycle more safely. Participants take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice on Times Square in New York, June 20, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

Public safety: Without a safe place to deposit their money, unbanked people are more likely to be victims of crime because they often carry large sums of cash with them or keep cash in their homes. Klein assumed the leadership of BOI (formerly FIELD) in 2012, after working as a senior consultant since the program’s inception in 1998.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. It should support sustainable modes (biking, walking, transit improvements) as well as parking. Create a transportation management district.

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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.

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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

The fact is, except for overly wide avenues, the L'Enfant Plan design for the city and its network of streets and sidewalks prioritizes sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit. Mapping pedestrian, bicycle, transit and car accidents Lots of links within each section. Street design and pavements.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. sustainable mobility. In general, people don't want schools to be bad. civic assets need to be available.