Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The group organized in 2013 to try to prevent the kind of displacement that has traditionally followed many Metro stations and new transit lines across the country. Also see " Op-Ed in Washington Post about preserving affordable housing in the Purple Line corridor (Department of Duh) " from earlier in the year on the same topic.

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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. NPS Photo/Stephanie Schneider.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail. Not mixed commercial use. Lawrence ," case study). Rec-reating Downtown.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

I was involved in opposing the Walmart that ended up being built up the street from my house -- and ironically a second Walmart was built 1.25 miles from our house in Fort Totten, making our area likely the most densely served by Walmart of any other area in the US. But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS! To Open Dec.

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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. Why so long, so obtuse, about developing a yard waste diversion program? But yard waste is a huge component of the waste stream.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 15, 2024

That's pretty close to us, and Sugar House is where Sugar House Park is, where I'm on the board. There was an ice cream manufacturing plant, now slated for housing. But overall since the region's development paradigm is sprawl, drive ins are huge. Salt Lake. Needless to say, the local business advocacy group didn't agree.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing.

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

That work has continued unabated since Daniels left office in 2013, and the rating now sits at 98%, according to the 2021 annual report. “Daniels revolutionized the state’s approach to its BMV, and just a few years later, an agency that had been almost universally despised enjoyed a customer satisfaction rating of 95.9

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. Technically.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). Rather than searching for the 'community', I advocate identifying, utilising and developing specific mechanisms.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2023

It's creeping out of bankruptcy (" Court order finalizes sale of Harborplace to Baltimore investment management firm ," WBAL-TV). -- " Baltimore's Harborplace in bankruptcy and what that says about certain development trends in urban revitalization ," 2019 There have been a bunch of reports and concept papers in the interim.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Today we had a ribbon cutting for the new Fabian Lakeside Pavilion at Sugar House Park in Salt Lake, where I am on the board. Similarly, we've developed some nice signage for the pavilion, although it's not quite installed. One of seven pavilions, they are about 60 years old. Other federal agencies like BLM use the same guidelines.)

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The larger academic publishers are now introducing software that can detect duplicate submission, but unfortunately it can only do so within a single publishing house. Despite the development of increasingly powerful software to detect malpractice, it is proliferating as more and more scholars seek to publish their work. Sadeq 2013.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Given the limitations on local property tax solutions, some neighborhood affordable housing organizations have encouraged the General Assembly to expand the Machinery Act’s existing property tax exemptions for homeowners. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Announcing New Teams Developer Portal for GCC. Teams Developer Portal for GCC will allow developers to Configure, distribute, and manage Microsoft Teams apps. Formerly App Studio, the Developer Portal can help wherever you are in your Microsoft Teams app development journey.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Photo of a manufactured housing neighborhood Introduction Manufactured Housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

This report—produced by the NYU Furman Center and the Urban Institute’s Housing Justice team—uses a mix of public and proprietary data to better understand where those vulnerabilities might lie in New York City. 6 At the same time, the City’s Zoning Resolution (ZR) continues to evolve in response to housing needs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

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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. Chinatown ," Washington Post , 2011).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. 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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Our Council member, Kenyatta Johnson, is now also Council president, and he has enormous power to protect affordable housing in his district and beyond.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They were closed during a 2013 shutdown. Republicans are up in arms that the Biden Administration wants to make "conservation" a legitimate land use for the leasing of public lands controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (" House Republicans aim to block a BLM land management proposal ," Roll Call ).

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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. A study by Vragara et al.,

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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. The third is preserving housing. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Now, probably the most prominent third place in the US is the coffee shop--over the last 30+ years "coffee culture" has developed, with a big push by Starbucks, in the US in the place of bars. But lots of commodification, and a very specific aesthetic, called the Global Village Coffeehouse. There are two problems.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Freeways do go under the National Mall, and Capitol Crossing, a real estate development, has decked I-395 at Massachusetts. It's a model for how I'd like to extend Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City, which abuts a section of I-80 that is about 40 acres. It wasn't economic development. Klyde Warren Park in Dallas opened in 2012.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

The incoming presidential administration of Donald Trump (Trump II) is now developing key policy priorities to implement once it takes office in January. The possibility of a GSE conservatorship exit has sparked considerable media attention, particularly in housing and mortgage industry circles.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

My work in Baltimore County also led to the development of my "Signature Streets" concept, as a way of unifying thinking about streets, mobility, and aesthetics, not just in counties but in cities too. By focusing on key concepts that "I've developed" here's a list. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic. That's not the case.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. Parks should develop programs to assist people of lesser means in enabling their participation. Monuments that are controversial.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Now the Intermodal Center just houses intercity bus services. -- Rio Grande Plan The plan proposes a tunnel to redirect the railroad passenger services back to the station, as well as a rerouting of the Trax Green Line, with railroad service in a tunnel behind the station and light rail service in front of the station.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

OCTOBER 8, 2020

2013) ("We can think of no other judicially-created doctrine which has been criticized so stridently, by so many jurists, for so long [as the Feres doctrine]."). In Justice Scalia's mind, the text of § 2680(j) clearly showed Congress's intent to limit the waiver exception. Justice Scalia continued his disgust with this doctrine in Ritchie v.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

After the last one I went to, I joked "we don't need to do one in Sugar House Park. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. Shoppers will find a wide selection of arts and crafts for all tastes.

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