Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A recent analysis by the Baltimore Banner found that 15,000 properties have appeared on the tax lien sale list twice since 2016 and 4,300 properties have appeared three times.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

The key is to constantly be focused and planning and forward looking. -- " HBCUs and the city: Relocating Cheyney University to Philadelphia? ," 2021 -- " Howard University announces wide ranging building program ," 2022 (Note, not saying HU is forward thinking. They've had a lot of problems)

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Launching the CSP with AWS CSS worked closely with AWS from the outset of the CSP project launch in 2014. In 2016, CSS initially designed the CSP to run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as a traditional server-based architecture within a single AWS Region. Operational costs were reduced by $10.7 million from launch.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We would call these "naturally occurring arts districts" in the vein of " naturally occurring retirement communities " and what I call "naturally occurring innovation districts" (" Naturally occurring innovation districts | Technology districts and the tech sector ," 2014).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 2014, the New York City Right to Counsel Coalition was formed and succeeded in introducing a bill requiring the city to expand access to counsel for all income-eligible tenants within five years. The early implementation of UAC showed an increase in legal representation that was higher than the city-wide increase in 2016.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Most recently, Kunkel and his team came to the conclusion that the 2022 NBA All-Star Weekend, held in Cleveland, produced a direct net economic benefit to the city of a stunning $141 million, part of $248.9 But what earns him the most press is the work he oversees estimating the economic impact of marquee sporting events on their host cities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From the WBJ : “I think that Chinatown will be fine even if the Verizon Center is moved,” said Ed McMahon, a senior resident fellow with the Urban Land Institute. Because downtown D.C. DC is at a disadvantage too, because unlike other jurisdictions, Congress forbids it from taxing non-residents.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

a Bike Expo in association with the 5 Boro Ride, which had more than 100 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees in 2014. Intra-district shuttle systems Item # 5 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 2: Program items 1 - 9 ," discusses how to implement an integrated parking-shuttle system in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before. Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

. -- " Getting WMATA out of crisis: a continuation of a multi-year problem that keeps getting worse, not better ," 2015 -- " DC area transit commission board member thinks he has a brilliant idea on how to fund Metrorail: sales taxes ," 2022 It's a shame that it had to reach the level of a super crisis to do anything.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014. 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. It's three stories, but there is parking for every unit.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

But even before that I went back and forth on it. Was it merely DC trying to copy other unusual creative infrastructure endeavors (at the same time there was an attempt to create a similar bridge in London, under then Mayor Boris Johnson, " An absurd vanity project for our age – Boris Johnson’s garden bridge ," Guardian ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Use the monies to fund and expand transit, especially Metrorail within the city as discussed above and in various postings such as " More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core " (2016). And separating the Yellow and Green Lines too.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I've written a few entries on this topic in the past year and over the years: -- " Next Level Clustering of Business away from the Midwest, " 2022 -- " Boeing to move "headquarters" to Northern Virginia ," 2022 -- " How the closure of a Pfizer research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan led to the development of a biotech sector there ," 2021 -- " Why do (..)

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 5, 2025

Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I continue to think that I should go by this place more often, it’s such a nice library.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 12, 2025

average read per month: 11.25 average read per week: 2.6 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

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2009 and a couple times afterwards, I said it was necessary for WMATA to rebuild the regional/metropolitan consensus about support for transit. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St.

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