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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This comes up because a building materials recycling and resale organization in Philadelphia, Philly Reclaim , is shutting down because it was behind in rent, has organizational management issues, and the building is being sold (" Tacony salvage shop needs to move by Monday. It’s giving away sinks, lumber, and more ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It turns out that there is an International Standard (ISO 55000) for asset management, which defines levels of service as: …parameters, or combination of parameters, which reflect social, political, environmental and economic outcomes that the organization delivers. and they collect special monies to pay for it.