Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 4, 2022

And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. " DC should get on the bandwagon.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Poster board from the 2014 meetings. I was kinda surprised about the conference, because they were big on examples from Minneapolis and Denver, which have light rail lines or networks, and not the DC area, which has Metrorail and at the time, almost 40 years of experience with transit oriented development.

Housing 52

Housing Community Development Development Nonprofit 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 7, 2023

In response to the death, apparently the city transportation department is going to do enhanced sidewalk crossings along one of the major arterials serving the elementary school. The driver says he didn't see her, but in reality I think "I didn't see her/him" really means "I didn't bother looking." Mayor Erin Mendenhall joined them!

Campaign 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 17, 2024

I've written hundreds of blog entries about bicycling and how to promote it as a real form of transportation, focused on but not limited to DC, which is a perfect city for it. Ciclavia in December 2014. Bike sharing programs ought to be an obvious opportunity for promoting cycling take up. Campus specific bike share programs.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Sustainability Transportation Security 52

Google Public Sector

AUGUST 29, 2023

Recognizing the need to meet evolving demands and expectations, USPS launched the Informed Delivery email subscription service in 2014. Google Cloud Customer Award Winners: Social Change Award Winner: Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT). Informed Delivery notifies subscribers of upcoming deliveries.

Education 98

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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Parks And Recreation Development Economic Development Voting 52

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. mile distance.

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations 52

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.

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Laws Housing Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. Lots of deaths.

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Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

Transportation 52

Transportation Social Media Fundraising Development 52

Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

My education about this critical topic began in 2014, when the City of Denver hired me to plan and facilitate community input sessions on the city’s proposed climate action plan update. The new challenge is to encourage participation so that anyone with a few minutes to learn and provide input can become part of the decision-making process.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

To date, Council and Administration have developed a strategic plan and completed a 4E (efficient, effective, equitable and economical) review of business plan and budget processes. Costs associated with this effort will be used to develop reporting tools and software, determine service levels and expectations, and to hire dedicated staff.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 Note that such programs should also address night time activities (" Night-time safety: rethinking lighting in the context of a walking community ," 2014).

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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.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development 52

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014. Corruption was endemic, from the bribes demanded by traffic cops to the kickbacks needed to secure government contracts. The public put far more faith in civil society than in official institutions.

Public Sector 59

Public Sector Government Leadership Accountability 59

Google Public Sector

AUGUST 29, 2023

Recognizing the need to meet evolving demands and expectations, USPS launched the Informed Delivery email subscription service in 2014. Google Cloud Customer Award Winners: Social Change Award Winner: Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT). Informed Delivery notifies subscribers of upcoming deliveries.

Education 52

Education Government Public Sector Constituents 52

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.

Management 52

Management Nonprofit Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I didn't know NASA originally planned for a big electronics hub in Boston's Kendall Square, as MIT's Draper Laboratory was an original developer of various electronics systems for the Apollo space program. The Department of Transportation supports research centers across the country as well.

Development 52

Development Government Economic Development Transportation 52

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.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

This one is from February 2014. In textbooks on organizational psychology, behavior and development, there is an extended discussion of boundary spanning, where people have conflicting responsibilities to different groups with different priorities. Planning as boundary spanning and serving multiple masters. U Street NW.

Urban Planning 52

Urban Planning Elected Officials Housing Development 52

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. This entry became very long, so I broke it up.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

Stabilisation was due to give way to peacekeeping and development when the earthquake struck the country and abruptly reversed the gains achieved. [i] Shelter may be 'innovative' or 'inspiring' to an architect from a highly developed country, but it could equally be detestable and impractical to the potential user. iii] Abrahams, D.

Social Media 69

Social Media Public Affairs Development Security 69

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. This entry became very long, so I broke it up.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I have a post about this related to biking (" Revisiting assistance programs to get people biking: 18 programs "), this piece about bus transit (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012), and this about district-focused transportation programming (" What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like? ").

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Sustainability Housing Transportation Engagement 52

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. My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. Funding options. I don't know.

Transportation 52

Transportation Budgeting Operations Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). My experience in the civic arena is that it takes "a couple rounds" of putting the idea out there before there is consensus to go forward.

Voting 52

Voting Campaign Elected Officials Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2025

In the annals of sports related and mega events transportation demand management as discussed in myriad blog entries, with a summary at the end, SEPTA, the transit agency for Philadelphia, is offering free transit after Sunday's game, but just on the Broad Street Line. The free rides will be sponsored by the betting website Draft Kings.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Development Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

The transportation profession tends to be dominated by men still, as it is heavily engineering based, but that is changing too. Increasingly, women are being chosen as transportation directors leading city agencies, for example in Pittsburgh, DC's former associate director of transportation planning, Karina Ricks, leads that agency.

Urban Planning 52

Urban Planning Transportation Budgeting Voting 52