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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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In a 2014 review of internet addiction, the authors considered how internet addiction affects our daily lives. This can mean saying no to social engagements and missing out on friends and family interactions. Fear of being without your smartphone even has a name – this is known as nomophobia – which stands for NO MObile PHone PhoBIA.

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zencity

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Local governments are increasingly working to expand their recycling programs, promote resident engagement and knowledge, and innovate to combat climate change. From 2014 to 2019 alone, the number of communities offering composting programs grew by 65 percent ! How did recycling start? Their “Is it recyclable? Schedule a demo.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 4, 2021

During the study period, answering rates—or the rate at which tenants appeared in response to court filing—increased dramatically throughout the city, likely due to citywide outreach and tenant engagement. Data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey also provided insight into resident demographics and housing conditions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 9, 2023

I was critical that they were mostly window dressing, but I did attend one, and if they were organized to engage people in substantive ways, they could be very effective. DCCF has a post, " Questions for Mayor Bowser's Public Safety Summit ," providing lots of questions to be asked of the public officials.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That means that schools need to invest resources in engaging with the neighborhood beyond the school grounds. Walk and bike to school activities can also be a way to engage residents who don't have children, in supporting "bike buses" and " walking school buses."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 7, 2023

| 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). But if kids aren't neighborhood residents, they aren't going to be walking or biking.

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A Library Writer's Blog

JUNE 11, 2024

General technology review : Looking back at the ten-year range, what are the major changes or improvements in library technologies that have occurred since 2014? Since this is a non-peer-reviewed column, there is also an opportunity to engage in new ways or different formats, so creative submissions will also be considered.

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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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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In other cases, they’re created directly by elected and administrative officials of government organizations, operating as an extension of government agencies yet they engage in fundraising, soliciting private contributions from willing citizen donors. In some cases, these foundations or charities are created and operated by private citizens.

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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). Alternatives to 'community engagement in DRR' do exist:-Organised voluntarism can be incorporated into the official civil protection system. Hence, 'community' is about influence. Banfield, E.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 23, 2022

Years ago this came up in Arlington with the $1 million bus shelter (" Arlington County's bus shelters and a public realm framework of quality ," 2013, " I guess I do have some issues with the Arlington bus shelters ," 2014). This is also an issue with transit systems and their heavy rail cars.

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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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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). Drawing on Michael Barzelay and Fred Thompson (2010), we can say that deliberative argumentation consists of engaging with others in: Careful observation, analysis, and synthesis.

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The 2013–2014 Maryland School Readiness Report revealed that 94 percent of African American children were school-ready, compared to 52 percent in previous years, and the number of Hispanic children who were school-ready increased from 39 percent to 71 percent.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In the 2015 budget process, the city engaged in a streamlined PBB process, recognizing the significant work that had been done in prior years, as well as the demands on staff related to flood recovery and the implementation of an integrated Finance and Human Resources business solutions software package.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 26, 2024

At the Center for Community Progress, we’ve engaged with heirs’ property issues for years. Data provided by Duval County Property Appraiser and Vital Statistics Data showed that heirs’ properties in Jacksonville doubled in count between the years 2014 and 2023.

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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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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

BPBI Project Update to Priorities Committee - September 16, 2014 When complete in 2015/16, these processes will simplify and strengthen business planning and budgeting at Strathcona County, providing focus and direction to all of the County’s activities. This new article below ( Can priority-based budgeting do the job? )

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

So it's the "entertainment city" idea but extending it to many more elements, making work and other spaces "more fun," engaging and active. The FT article mentions the Prudential Center in Boston, calling attention to how the first two floors of the building are set up to be open and connected and engaging-- shopping and food.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. For frequent, new and visiting customers, we are piloting new signage, beginning with putting service information at street level at Metro Center.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

. -- " Exogenous market forces impact DC's housing market ," 2012 -- " Applying the super-gentrification thesis to San Francisco, Santa Monica, and other cities experiencing hyper-demand ," 2014 -- " The nature of high value ("strong") residential real estate markets. ," 2017 -- " Why "gentrification" is visible now.

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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.

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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. Social Marketing 3.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Later he was fired because Mayor Guiliani didn't like how much attention that Bratton got by the press and public, and the policing strategy changed from data based to what is called Zero Tolerance Policing, which could be pretty oppressive and didn't engage the community.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

I make this point often that planning engagements are set up to fail from the outset because planners have to achieve both city (or county wide goals like economic development) as well as neighborhood specific objectives, while residents tend to take responsibility only for the latter. It's three stories, but there is parking for every unit.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

It is considered one of America’s government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs), i.e., public-private hybrid corporations created by Congress and authorized to engage only in a narrowly-tailored set of activities.

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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

MARCH 1, 2024

Or years ago, I suggested Morgan State should have relocated its architecture school to the Station North Arts district in Baltimore. -- " Morgan State University should move their architecture and planning school to Downtown/Station North Arts District ," 2014 Howard could do something similar. When it was in the commercial district. "

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

The lawsuit alleged that the defendants engaged in practices to restrict price competition in single-family brokerage commissions, in particular for homebuyers. The ten-year average from 2014 to 2023 was 6.4 5] See National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2023 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers. Behind a paywall.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

This one is from February 2014. Relatedly, in planning engagements, planners have two responsibilities, simultaneously dealing with "citywide" concerns as laid out in a master or comprehensive land use plan for the community, as well as neighborhood concerns, while residents typically only take responsibility for the latter.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

," (2013) Civic assets as a network The "change isn't that simple" entry discusses multiple cities with wide-ranging anchor project development with branding similarities to the "Signature Streets" proposal. Other cities have differently named similar organizations. Generally, they have the power to weigh in on matters before government bodies.

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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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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Washington, DC: IBM Center for The Business of Government. Managing Performance: Robert Behn (2014). Paul Epstein, Paul Coats, Lyle Wray, David Swain (2006), Results that Matter: Improving Communities by Engaging Citizens, Measuring Performance and Getting Things Done Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons Publishers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Civic participation drops in places without newspapers (" How the disappearance of local news hurts civic engagement ," PBS, " Local news has long provided a vital civic bond. Newspaper issues of The Star-Ledger, The Times of Trenton, the South Jersey Times and The Express-Times of Easton, from 2014. Mel Evans/AP Photo. "

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Such as investing in creating friends of the parks programs for parks serving low income areas. -- " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement " It's an issue we don't have a formal policy on for Sugar House Park , but I do try to keep the point top of mind when planning issues come up.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014. 16] Treasury does not engage in such rescue financing without proper compensation on behalf of the taxpayer. The proposal that got the furthest was the Corker-Warner bill (later renamed Johnson-Crapo), based upon the concept of many competing smaller GSEs.

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