Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We need him to work with community advocates to pass citywide policies that prioritize low-income housing and opt the 2nd District into the mixed-income neighborhood overlay, which would require housing developers to ensure 20% of their units are affordable. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Howard does have its bookstore on Georgia Avenue and they tried for a hotel and have worked on developing a town center there for a couple decades). Businesses developed out of university-based research. Faculty concentration as talent and an element of community development. 1 in 2021 ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

It's why Friendship Heights in DC isn't doing so great retail-wise (" Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ") and why DC can't really develop a strong retail center in the core. I do believe that basketball and hockey arenas should be located downtown and that they can contribute positively to economic development.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Over the past twenty years a set of institutionalized funding relationships developed in which nonprofit organizations in the forms of private philanthropic foundations and “friends of” charities formed and now raise increasingly large share of revenues to help pay for public services. Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development?

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The 2013–2014 Maryland School Readiness Report revealed that 94 percent of African American children were school-ready, compared to 52 percent in previous years, and the number of Hispanic children who were school-ready increased from 39 percent to 71 percent.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

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. NYC sponsors(ed?) Car sharing.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014. Corruption was endemic, from the bribes demanded by traffic cops to the kickbacks needed to secure government contracts. The public put far more faith in civil society than in official institutions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 8, 2024

And complaints about being under-amenitized on the West Side center around a conspiracy against POC but because of lack of population and commercial centers, and historical developments--the west side population was close to downtown anyway, which was the regional business and retail center before sprawl.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I didn't know NASA originally planned for a big electronics hub in Boston's Kendall Square, as MIT's Draper Laboratory was an original developer of various electronics systems for the Apollo space program. The Department of Defense as a customer of technology firms has also spurred economic development.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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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. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? There just aren't that many jobs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

She could just do the stuff I suggested before she was elected: A Marshall Plan for East of the River -- " Social urbanism and equity planning as a way to address crime, violence, and persistent poverty: (not in) DC " (reports on a conversation from 2013 and the process after) and during her two terms of office: Transformational health care -- " A (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 -- " Downtown Edmonton cultural facilities development as an example of "Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2018

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

While restrictive zoning is not the only reason housing costs are high in the United States, it does play a major role in limiting housing development, especially in parts of the country with high paying jobs in fast-growing industries. For example, in the 2014 planning cycle, the statewide target for housing growth was one million units.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. Planning relevance.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

WMATA has even more issues because if either Maryland or Virginia have Republican Governors, it makes it very difficult to develop consensus support for such a tax, because they see it, justifiably or not, as helping DC disproportionately. So given there's been talk about this for at leas 20 years I'm not holding my breath. Funding options.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The prior risk-based adjustment to the GSEs’ G-fees had been set about a decade ago based on historic loss statistics at that time, with some revisions implemented in 2014. Lastly, the FHA and VA need to develop quality transparency and reporting to demonstrate how these recommendations are being implemented.

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