Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

I've written so much about how Prince George's County, Maryland has been handed so many opportunities to reposition the county around transit oriented development, yet they've failed to take advantage of the opportunities time and time again. And it is a part of #12 in the action points list in the 2014 piece. Gensler/Urban Atlantic).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Chirag Karnik, Founder and Director at Neyo Ltd, guides us through IT solutions and Operations Management, and his vision for the future of the company. Our primary focus is to work on IT Operations Management (ITOM) solutions. We also provide services including Process Consulting and Project Management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

I am a design strategist at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech Singapore), an agency that develops government digital services to make a difference to the everyday lives of people in Singapore. Another agency manages grass in or near parks. They were designed from the point of view of the agency, not the citizens.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. In their previous role at the West Virginia Community Development Hub, Bennett worked as the primary statewide convener and advocate for land bank-based policies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). Economic Development hype versus building the local economy. But it would have to be built into the experience. That would add some money to the till.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

in 2014 earned the country a $970 million profit, enabling it to join the UN thanks to all the royalties from its domain name registrations. Following in Brazil’s footsteps, Mexico is an example of another growing Latin American nation looking to develop its digital landscape further. country code. Ironically, only 49.3

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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 29, 2023

Google Cloud Customer Award Winners: Government Winner: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Managing insurance in the context of disasters, particularly flooding as one of the nation’s most common and costly natural disaster, presents enormous technological complexities.

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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 24, 2023

Shortly after being founded in 2014, GoGuardian was serving more than 30,000 students. Schools and districts are tasked with challenges ranging from classroom management and engagement to student performance and safety to emotional well-being. Let’s take a closer look at how schools around the U.S.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Steve currently serves on the board of the Foundation for America's Public Lands, a congressionally-authorized non-profit working to support the mission and objectives of the Bureau of Land Management. Air Force, where she oversaw the development of a new science and technology strategy for the branch. AmeriCares, and others.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

So would we manage without one? In a 2014 review of internet addiction, the authors considered how internet addiction affects our daily lives. Disturbed OFC function is thought to contribute to the development and maintenance of addictive behaviour. © DGLimages| iStock How does smartphone addiction affect us?

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 10, 2023

Agency Name: Administration for Community Living Description: The ADPI funding opportunity announcement (FOA) aims to support the development and expansion of dementia-capable home and community-based service (HCBS) systems in states and communities. Each entity can only hold one ADPI grant at a time.

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The City Fix

APRIL 12, 2023

Between 2000 and 2014, urban area in South Africa expanded by 1,464 km2. South Africa’s cities are economic engines, drawing workers across the country and the continent. Of the country’s 58.8 million population, 68% live in urban areas. Population projections.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Pittsburgh has an incredible history in community development. Those initiatives have influenced me greatly and taught me a lot. -- " Urban economic development strategies: do you invest in people or places? Ironically one of the influences is a program developed in Pennsylvania, called Elm Street.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). In any manageable geographical unit there are likely to be associations of citizens: faith groups, voluntary associations; recreational, political and business groups. But do they add up to a community?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store. The site was originally approved for a mixed use development with 400+ apartments above, which would have generated more income, sales, and property tax revenues for the city.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

an urban design dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. I argue that a lot of urban policy was developed when cities where losing population and stabilization was the primary goal, staunching outmigration. historic architecture 2.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Indeed, if public leaders and managers find that a planning approach gets in the way of strategic thinking, acting, and learning, they should drop the approach and try a different one. This last theory I found particularly intriguing – especially given my interest in mapping as a tool for strategy development.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When I got my job in 2014, there were 208 tenure-track Spanish positions advertised ; in 2022 there were only 44. Advantages: Project management — Completing a dissertation, publishing research, preparing and teaching courses — all of these accomplishments require advanced project management skills.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

The process will provide valuable information that supports decision-making by directors and managers, enabling them to allocate or reallocate resources, based on each program or resource request’s alignment to strategic and corporate priorities.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 28, 2021

Additionally, some databases that list active funding opportunity announcements also include features to track your grant proposal’s development, submission, and even post-award activity. Among the development and grant professionals we work with at larger institutions, most see FDO as a must-have resource for their prospect research.

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A Library Writer's Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

When cognitive load is surpassed, it can be much more difficult to process, encode, and retain new information (Paas and Ayres, 2014). 2 (June 1, 2014): 191–95. Cognitive load refers to the amount of information an individual is able to retain in their working memory at one time ( Sweller , 1988). Educational Psychology Review 26, no.

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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 29, 2023

Google Cloud Customer Award Winners: Government Winner: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Managing insurance in the context of disasters, particularly flooding as one of the nation’s most common and costly natural disaster, presents enormous technological complexities.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

In the words of one of them, Oleksandr Kamyshin, a 38-year-old former manager of a venture-capital fund who is now restructuring Ukraine’s arms industry, “we call it Ukraine 2.0. Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014. The public put far more faith in civil society than in official institutions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Many places have installed them, as they are often specified as part of street furniture/advertising projects (" City Room City Room Blogging From the Five Boroughs In 9 Years of Work, Just 3 Public Toilets Go Live ," New York Times , 2014, " JCDecaux wins San Francisco's iconic Street Furniture contract ").

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 10, 2023

Grant management and reporting are crucial aspects of the overall funding lifecycle. If your organization is new to grant seeking, or you’ve only recently incorporated grant applications as part of your development operations, curating your grant calendar and sending out proposals can seem high-stakes enough.

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Importance of Measurement Tools For those managing programs—whether running a nonprofit or working in a government agency—the key question is, “How do I know my service is truly making a difference?” For any of this to be possible, measurement is essential. And if they’re not measuring progress, how can they be sure?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

WMATA has even more issues because if either Maryland or Virginia have Republican Governors, it makes it very difficult to develop consensus support for such a tax, because they see it, justifiably or not, as helping DC disproportionately. So given there's been talk about this for at leas 20 years I'm not holding my breath.

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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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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 24, 2023

Shortly after being founded in 2014, GoGuardian was serving more than 30,000 students. Schools and districts are tasked with challenges ranging from classroom management and engagement to student performance and safety to emotional well-being. Let’s take a closer look at how schools around the U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

More parks systems are developing outdoor winter programming guidance ( Denver Outdoor Adventure and Alternative Sports Strategic Plan ), when before perhaps they focused on indoor activities at best. There has always been tension in park management over active versus passive use. Activation. Hey, it just might work ," amNY ).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

In recent years, the System has been subject to growing criticism that it has been inadequately supporting the housing and community development mission given to it by Congress. 27 This development is perhaps the most damning evidence as to how political the FHLBanks are. Part 1 of this two-part paper describes this more fully.

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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

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

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. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? There just aren't that many jobs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

These standards are developed by Health Level Seven International , a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information to support clinical practice and the management, delivery, and evaluation of health services.

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