Reprogramming the City

APRIL 1, 2023

Recent advancements in waste to energy (WtE) technologies have offered a promising solution for repurposing waste into energy, providing a sustainable and efficient means of managing waste while also generating valuable energy. This reduces reliance on fossil fuels and supports the transition towards renewable energy sources (Arena, 2012).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

APRIL 24, 2022

Moreover, at the world scale there has been a gradual and sustained retreat from democracy as well as a retreat from the principle of right to protection (R2P). As an example, consider the impact of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear release in Japan in 2011 on nuclear energy policy in other countries (Wittneben 2012,Kim et al.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. At that time, they designated 5 areas, invested a lot in urban design, public art, and sustainable mobility connections between the districts and Downtown. The state later developed its own program.

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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. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012 It doesn't need to take 60 years. It's ready for a slight update because I have a couple more items. We spent 60+ years building a system of automobility. We need to build a similar system for biking. But it does need to be purposive.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. Root Causes.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 26, 2021

When will a government surprise us and apologise for 20 previous inquiries into aged care before the latest Royal Commission, or perhaps the 32 inquiries into mental health between 2006 and 2012, and declare a moratorium on reviews and commissions, royal or otherwise.

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The Lowe Down

MAY 14, 2023

Between 2012 and the acquisition, John Wayne rose to become dominant in international flights compared to ONT, Long Beach, and Bob Hope. To conclude, Ontario Airport has delivered sustained success since the return of control to the Inland Empire. The rankings have not changed since the acquisition. of revenues.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. Create sustainable mobility districts and corridors as appropriate, complementing the transit network improvements, especially in the Tysons area, which is planned, but far behind in implementation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

Participants take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice on Times Square in New York, June 20, 2012. 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. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

Another popular activity is what is called Open Streets, where streets are closed for the day (sometimes in a park like Rock Creek in DC/Maryland, for the weekend) in favor of sustainable mobility and other activities. Open Streets Minneapolis Ciclavia, Los Angeles Times photo.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Modeled after the NC Rural Center’s Loan Participation Program , CornerSquare Community Capital will be a long-term, sustainable solution to support CDFIs working with small businesses at the local level. 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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GovCast

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From 2012 to 2021, data center closures and optimization brought government an estimated 6.6 Data center and energy management also play a key role in sustainability targets and the Biden administration’s goal to hit net-zero emissions by 2050. billion in cost savings and avoidances.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 17, 2023

It was undercapitalized and didn't have enough business to sustain the slow period of growth associated with opening. Last year, an independent community grocery store closed on the Westside of Oakland (" Why West Oakland’s only full-service grocery store closed after less than 3 years ," Oaklandside). Photo: Michelle Gomez, DCist/WAMU-NPR.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations. We mostly dealt with drug and gun crimes, but got robberies, assaults, murder, etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

When I worked for Baltimore County in FY2010, as a bicycle and pedestrian planner, simultaneously the master plan update was going on, and I was asked to submit a briefing paper on transit and sustainable mobility.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. The barriers to environmental sustainability in post-disaster settings: a case study of transitional shelter implementation in Haiti. 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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

The project took six years to complete, and the station opened in 2012, with full service in 2013. As part of the redevelopment plan, the U4 line was extended by about 4/10 miles with the addition of the HafenCity University station (the line has since been further extended). Conclusion. It's been 26 years.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

sustainable mobility. In general, people don't want schools to be bad. WRT "daycare" one rise in PreK education for 3 to 5 year olds in cities like DC and NYC is to address the dearth of quality daycare and the expense. Transit, walking, biking, car share need to be viable options. civic assets need to be available.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

These approaches not only cut costs but also support sustainable IT practices in higher education. By using two practical methods, universities can align their cloud usage with actual demand, improving budget management and supporting sustainable IT practices. Using AWS Lambda with Amazon EventBridge for scheduled and batch processing.

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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?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Sustainable mobility platform : this builds off transit to include urban design and multiple modes. It's due for a re-codification, as the comments are replete with additions. -- " Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework ," (2018) 8. While dedicated ROW would be nice, it's not required.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Admittedly, many transportation agencies are investing a lot in urban design, livable streets, sustainable mobility, etc. But even in the best agencies, a lot of the time sustainable mobility and urban design elements are overlooked, or removed from plans because of the cost. Mayors as systems integrators.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

From the article: “To be good in the business of football today — and good to me is not being good one year, but try to sustain it year in and year out — you have to understand economics and you have to understand value,” Kraft said near the end of his team’s almost-magical 2007 season. “I

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

the market expectation that the government would not let the companies fail) [2] rather than their own capital strength to sustain the near-government quality market access needed for their business model to work. A very short synopsis is: From 2008 to 2012, the net worth of the two GSEs was wiped out by GFC-era losses.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Many previous campaigns and party committees have used AWS, such as Obama for America in 2012 , the Democratic National Committee , and the Republican National Committee. Elections and sustainable trucking: The Fix This podcast March round up. How the cloud enables transformational citizen experiences.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

2, 2012, in Houston. Also see Labor Network for Sustainability. For example, " Making bus service sexy and more equitable " (2012) discusses how investment in bus systems, network breadth and depth, and streetcars is a benefit for the transit dependent. 9, in Houston. published by Island Press, on these issues.

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