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Librarian.net
JANUARY 2, 2023
Previous years: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Fairlee (1) – I was in town for a conference and stopped by. Hartness/Randolph (1) – Stopped by when I was in a walki I miss this place.
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Librarian.net
JANUARY 1, 2022
Previous years: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Chelsea (23) – I was the W/Th librarian for a few months. Rochester (1) – stopped by to say hello before teaching some online classes.
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Librarian.net
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 18, 2023
. -- " Should transit on Inauguration Day be free? ," 2013/2016 Note that DC will be launching free surface transit later this summer (" Free ride: DC unveils bold plan to boost public transit ," Associated Press), something I'll get around to writing about (" Is making surface transit free the best transit investment DC can make? ," 2016).
Librarian.net
JANUARY 5, 2024
Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. I should go by this place more often, it’s such a nice library.
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Librarian.net
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.
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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
JANUARY 19, 2017
But one commenter wondered why PMRA had not taken a similar stance when North Carolina passed a law in 2013 that undercut voting rights that disproportionately affected minority citizens (subsequently invalidated by the U.S. Court of Appeals). .
AWS Public Sector Blog
MARCH 13, 2024
Common Securitization Solutions (CSS), a joint Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae venture launched in 2013, supports a cornerstone of the American economy: home ownership. Born in the cloud Development of the CSP began in 2013 to provide a modern, single-family securitization infrastructure for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 13, 2024
Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " Route 7 BRT proposal communicates the reality that the DC area doesn't adequately conduct transportation planning at the metropolitan-scale ," 2016 -- " Reviving DC area bus service: and a counterpoint to the recent Washington City Paper article ," 2019 From the article: With additional (..)
Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast
MARCH 14, 2023
He was later appointed Interim Fire Chief (2013-2014). Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), a position he assumed in March 2016 after serving the City of Los Angeles for thirty years. He was later appointed Interim Fire Chief (2013-2014).
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
MAY 14, 2024
Previously (Alexander 2013), I thought that Holling was wrong about resilience. Many researchers who have adopted the concept when trying to interpret disaster risk reduction have followed the work of Crawford Stanley "Buzz" Holling, as expressed in his 1973 paper (Holling 1973). References Alexander, D.E. Holling, C.S Manyena, B.
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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Michael Nutter served as Mayor of Philadelphia from 2008 to 2016. She served as Deputy Director for Policy and, starting in 2013, as Policy Director for the Mayor until 2016. During his eight years in office, the city became a leader in the use of data, evidence and evaluation to improve outcomes for city residents.
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Librarian.net
JANUARY 2, 2023
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 8, 2025
. -- " Snow, winter and the "Sustainable Mobility City" ," (2019) -- " A "maintenance of way" agenda for the walking and transit city ," 2010 -- " Snow reminds us of the necessity of a "maintenance of way" agenda ," 2013 -- " Testimony on the Winter Sidewalk Safety Amendment Act of 2011 ," 2011 -- " Level of service and maintenance requirements in (..)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
I summarize this as when you have a choice between two or more districts, you choose to visit the one that's easier to get to, with more and better options (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2016). You can never stop (" MAIN STREET NICHES IN A MASS SALES WORLD ," Neil Peirce, 2004).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 9, 2023
And there is a lot of work on "violence interruption." I go back and forth about it, but there is some potential there.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
A loss for community-based radio programs.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 4, 2023
That's not unlike what I've suggested for the Inauguration (" Should transit on Inauguration Day be free? ," 2013/2016) and other super special events (" Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit ," 2023). It's probably too little too late. And absolutely that it is a key issue.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
From " Intra-neighborhood (tertiary) transit revisited because of new San Diego service " (2016): Center City (DC) Primary Transit Network : Core of the WMATA system in DC (31 stations); streetcar system; Downtown Circulator bus service; foundational "main line" WMATA bus services; bus rapid/rapider transit.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
If anything it's about applying suburban ideas about bicycling (" DC as a suburban agenda dominated city ," 2013) or transit (" Transit notes #2: Anti-transit opposition a form of defending automobility as a way of life ," 2016) to urban areas. For us, not owning a car supported $100,000 of our mortgage.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Even so, in 2013, Mexico’s congress was able to successfully pass a nationwide one-peso-per-litre (about 10%) tax on sugary drinks, over the opposition of the soda industry. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Tina Rosenberg explains how Mexico overcame soda industry opposition to pass a soda tax in 2013. How did it happen?
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 11, 2022
And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 4, 2021
As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court. In 2016, the Expanded Legal Services (ELS) pilot program launched with the aim of providing legal representation for tenants living within 10 ZIP Codes with household incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty line. Methodology.
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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
In 2013, Mexican lawmakers passed an excise tax on sugary drinks of 1 peso (about 8 cents) per liter, which is about a 10 percent tax. Can a tax on sugary drinks reduce consumption and therefore fight obesity? The nation of Mexico, which has similarly high rates of obesity as the United States, is putting that question to the test.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
Car sharing works in certain conditions (" Car sharing and integrated sustainable mobility planning ," 2013, " Another example of DC's failures in transportation planning: carsharing ," 2011, " When the one over neighborhood is in the county next door, and housing prices have been in the tank: Mount Rainer, Maryland ," 2016, section on car sharing).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 2, 2024
The pavilion project is interesting for a bunch of reasons: the original pavilion study dates to 2016. The Park is about 70 years old, a regional park, and unusually, owned by the City and County jointly but overseen by an independent board. So it took 8 years to construct the first new pavilion.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
JUNE 9, 2019
The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Alexander, D. Disaster Prevention and Management 11(3): 209-213.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Specifically, prices reached their pre-2008 peak in 2016 Q2 2 and then kept on rising at a strong pace 3 , with many analysts pointing to the shortage of new construction (both single and multi-family) as the major causal reason. By comparison, median household income was rising from 2016 through 2020 by only 2.6 See [link]. [3]
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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
The most prominent example of this is the collective effort by the Ford, Kresge, Mott, and the Knight foundations to fund over $330 million of the bailout for the bankrupt City of Detroit in 2013. Philanthropy Supporting Government: An Analysis of Local Library Funding. Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs , 1 (2): 74-86.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2023
Again, Brightline provides a perfect opportunity to build a new consensus for how to handle public transit in Greater Orlando, along the lines I've recommended for DC Metrorail for a long time. -- " What it will take to get WMATA out of crisis continued and 2016's 40th anniversary of WMATA as an opportunity to rebuild ," 2015 -- " WMATA and two types (..)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 28, 2023
Free transit during the period around the NBA All Star Game.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 19, 2023
. -- " Revisiting past blog entries: College Park as a college town and economic development | PG County and Amazon ," 2018 -- " To be a great city, College Park Maryland needs some "there", it needs a center ," 2013 -- " More Prince George's County: College Park's militant refusal to become a college town makes it impossible for the city(and maybe (..)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
Transit and economic development. The velocity of change from NoMA Metrorail station was so significant it convinced me that the public investment with the fastest ROI, at least when done right, is transit.
Microsoft Public Sector
JULY 20, 2023
As announced earlier, InfoPath Client 2013 will reach the end of its extended support period on July 14, 2026 ( link ), and to keep an aligned experience across Microsoft products, InfoPath Forms Service will be retired from SharePoint Online. will require users to do number matching after May 2023.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
-- " More on Metro and rethinking transit marketing ," 2006 -- " Helping Government Learn ," 2009 -- " Transit, stations, and placemaking: stations as entrypoints into neighborhoods ," 2013 -- " Posting information on board members and the Metro in train stations ," 2017 My concept of a "complementary investment program in the transit network in association (..)
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
3] Focusing on owner-occupied housing, house prices have increased faster than wages from 2016 (when they reached their pre-2008 peak level) through early 2020, reducing affordability. Specifically, from when prices reached their pre-2008 peak level (2016 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic hit (2020 Q1), prices increased by 24.3
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
But you really have to work it: -- " Naturally occurring innovation districts | Technology districts and the tech sector ," 2014 -- " Better leveraging higher education institutions in cities and counties: Greensboro; Spokane; Mesa; Phoenix; Montgomery County, Maryland; Washington, DC ," 2016 (Reprinted.)
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Microsoft Public Sector
JULY 19, 2022
MC391952 — Microsoft 365 Assessment tool for SharePoint 2013 workflows available now! SharePoint 2013 Workflows platform was introduced 10 years ago. SharePoint 2010 Workflows was retired as of November 1st, 2020 with the notice that we would also retire SharePoint Workflow 2013 in the future. Microsoft 365 Assessment tool.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Amanda Browders Spectral Locus, 2016, included in ArtPrizes Project 1 biennial. It's a two week festival, with decent monetary prizes for artists (" ArtPrize to transform Grand Rapids in two weeks ," " Why ArtPrize had a bigger economic impact in 2023 ," WOOD-TV, " ArtPrize returns to downtown Grand Rapids. Photo: Tom Loonan/Project 1.
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. Use spaces in an expanded Eastern Market campus, such as for a volunteer fair (" Community engagement #1: Capitol Hill Volunteer Fair this Saturday ," 2016).
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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 10, 2023
Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. 24] See the G-fee Report of 2013, issued in November 2014. The two portfolios together peaked at over $1.5 22] See the G-fee Report, pp.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. That will add to the activation-specialness-fun element of the concept of the Bridge Park.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 19, 2023
The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)
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