Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset.

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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. Her recent article in The Guardian is titled, “ How one of the most obese countries on earth took on the soda giants.” How did it happen?

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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. To learn more, we’re joined by one of the articles co-authors, Barry Popkin. Can a tax on sugary drinks reduce consumption and therefore fight obesity? It also passed a tax on junk food.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

That's why I have to laugh at the article in today's Post about USC, " D.C. From the article: District officials have spent months figuring out how to counter negative economic trends spurred by emptied offices downtown. officials hope new USC campus can aid in downtown’s comeback."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 28, 2023

From the article: The “Cottonwood Connect” ski shuttle will provide passengers $10 round-trip rides to either Alta and Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon, or Brighton and Solitude in Big Cottonwood Canyon, on a first-come, first-serve basis beginning Thursday morning. It's $10 round trip, which seems reasonable.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An article, " West Side Market to transition to nonprofit management ," in the Cleveland Plan Dealer reports that the West Side Market there is moving to nonprofit management, while the city will still own the building. Recommendation for how Eastern Market should be managed: an independent nonprofit. Anselm's is today. Postcard image.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

From the article: In a move aimed at expanding the tech sector’s economic development engine to more parts of the country, the Biden administration on Monday named 31 communities as innovation hubs that will work to advance a range of technologies, including autonomous systems, quantum computing, biomedicine and green energy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Louis regional transit planning process as a model for what needs to be done in the DC Metropolitan region ," 2009 And some of that seems to be happening, at least with the local commuter line (" Brightline, Orlando and Orange County collaborate on potential convention center rail route ," Orlando Business Journal ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs. Transit and economic development.

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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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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

From the article: Meanwhile, a few hundred feet away, Pioneer Square mainstays Linda Hodges Gallery and the Center on Contemporary Art are celebrating a different milestone: their last First Thursday Art Walk. Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed.

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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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This article aims to take a fresh look at MH to determine just how much it truly can be a large-scale natural source of additional affordable housing, whether owner-occupied or rental, as claimed by its supporters in the industry and policy community. By comparison, median household income was rising from 2016 through 2020 by only 2.6

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Music in the American Wild ( webpage , Eastman School of Music) was a program where new music compositions were commissioned to play in 12 National Parks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the park system in 2016. From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Unkempt areas aren't places where people want to live (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016). But these kinds of efforts are often criticized as inequitable ( Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities , Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara, 2013).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

There is an article at Building Salt Lake, " Why isn’t Utah Transit Authority supporting the Rio Grande Plan? ," opining about why the Utah Transit Authority isn't all in on the concept of reviving Rio Grande Station as the "central station" for Downtown railroad and transit service.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Also see " Back to school #2: education unions should create multifaceted public education "meeting halls" comparable to AIA chapter "architecture centers" " (2016). From the article: As You Are , a combination cafe and bar, has played a unique role for the queer community since it opened on a corner of Barracks Row in March 2022.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 19, 2022

These updates include changes to our reflow automation for two-column sections and the RSS Connector web part by giving more control to users around the number of publications shown at one time and the number of articles shown per publication. MC391952 — Microsoft 365 Assessment tool for SharePoint 2013 workflows available now!

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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.

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