Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

Pullman was an industrial community, known for being the home of the Pullman railcar operation, which finally went kaput in 1955, although it manufactured cars elsewhere into the 1980s, and was later absorbed by Bombardier. From a publicity brochure published by the Pullman Company. National Monument.

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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.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Purpose, crisis and new leadership The starting point, as always with the instinct for systemic reform, is purpose born of crisis: When Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukraine’s president in 2019, he promised to modernise a state that until then had been a byword for bureaucracy and corruption. Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Leaving other revenues from television and other sources untouched--although the team points out its minor league and Latin American operations are paid for out of those sources too. The analysis finds that the team doesn't spend much more on payroll than it makes from ticket and concession sales.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

Another DC example is development on the site of the Takoma Metrorail station (" The Takoma Metro Development Proposal and its illustration of gaps in planning and participation processes ," 2014). This has been going on since 2000, and finally a better project, albeit ugly as sin, is going forward.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

Waverly Market Pete Seeger tribute singalong, Columbia Heights Plaza, Washington, DC, 2/1/2014 Sometimes plazas are poorly placed, like Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, so it often goes unused. DC's Franklin Square is more centrally located, but wasn't designed for such a function. Campus Martius beach. They are often strongly branded.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 27, 2025

GM agreed to move to a building to be constructed on the Hudson's Department Store site--but renting little space comparatively--and the two agreed to jointly redevelop RenCen (" GM and Bedrock reveal master plan for John Portmans Renaissance Center by Gensler and Field Operations ," Architect's Newspaper ). Anti-urban design.

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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 in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural ecosystem element a key addition: -- " Building the arts and culture ecosystem in DC: Part One, sustained efforts vs. one-off or short term initiatives ," (2015) and in 2019 I added another point that was a given, but hadn't been codified into its own point, (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). But even before that I went back and forth on it. And if there is a lot of kid visitation, well kids don't spend money.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 9, 2023

DCCF has also alerted us to a "public safety summit" tomorrow, convened by Mayor Bowser, and bringing a lot of public officials to the table, with citizens invited. Wednesday, May 10 at 9:00 a.m.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 16, 2021

I first visited the affected area in 2014, having failed to gain a place on an earlier expedition that took place a year and a half after the disaster. A makeshift shrine was erected at the base of the three-storey emergency operations centre in Shizugawa. The affected area is the T?hoku hoku region of northeast Honshu island.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

cuts speed limit to 20 mph to curb pedestrian deaths: a step forward but not enough | New thoughts on a comprehensive Vision Zero agenda ," 2020 In " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC " (2021) I made these points: 1.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

For some insight into how different research operations have significantly different rates and capacities for the development of spinoff businesses, see " How the closure of a Pfizer research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan led to the development of a more robust and independent biotech sector." There are probably some I've missed.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

One, it placed the companies into conservatorship, an obscure legal status in which they would continue to operate, but with their regulator, the FHFA, [3] in operational control of the companies in lieu of their stockholders and boards of directors. However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Transit/transportation as a set of networks operating at different scales : this extends the argument laid out in the 2006 Arlington County Master Transportation Plan, where they defined their primary and secondary transit networks. ( Advertising supplement to the Washington Star, 1975.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 31, 2025

1] The two government-sponsored entities (GSEs) have been in conservatorship for over 16 years, and the last significant action aimed at their exit occurred in 2019, during the first Trump administration (Trump I), when they were authorized to start retaining profits in order to build capital.

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