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AWS Public Sector Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
A core focus of the Future of Government Awards is the importance of open source,” said Joe Hooper, director of the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development. In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 8, 2025
I used to write yearly about this, focusing on how the sustainable mobility centric city needs snow removal policies that co-equally privilege walking, biking and transit users, not just the motor vehicle parts of roads.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 20, 2024
From the article: The Sustainable DC Plan, which came out in 2013, said the District should begin diverting 80% of its waste away from landfills and incinerators by 2032. I've written about DC's waste practices for years (" More on zero waste practice and DC ," 2015). But yard waste is a huge component of the waste stream.
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. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions.
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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 11, 2022
In terms of overall waste reduction planning, it's essential to include all properties in a jurisdiction within planning (" More on zero waste practice (and DC) ," 2015). WRT solid waste and recycling it's pretty much the same. The city is responsible for certain types of recycling.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2023
But a failure to keep renewing the space, a fall off in tourism after the Freddie Gray riots in 2015, and the unfortunate occurrence of a lousy property manager buying the complex combined to drive it into ruin. This might be a way to amp up the planning function.
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