Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. It's about speed versus access. Hamburg's transport association is the model.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

As climate-related disclosures emerge, such as the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) , and asset owners and insurers consider climate risk impacts for their operations, heat represents a chronic risk to many organizations and activities. Customer asset locations (in this example, a sample of U.S.

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Operations Sustainability Accountability Public Sector 59

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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Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations 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. Operating 24/7, the SBSD features virtual agents that manage around 1,200 calls daily. Informed Delivery notifies subscribers of upcoming deliveries.

Education 52

Education Government Public Sector Constituents 52

Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2024

However, if their goal is to drive sustained change, having the right tools becomes essential for data collection and meaningful analysis. Additionally, funders need to invest in training leaders to understand the need for data, and how data can improve their operations.

Accountability 52

Accountability Government Agency Nonprofit Implementation 52

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. The difference between the two worlds One of the problems I had with academic writing was actually sustaining interest in my own projects long enough to get all the way through the academic publishing pipeline.

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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.

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

But by then, other cities, especially San Francisco ( Sustainable Mobility and Climate Action Strategy ) and New York City ( World Class Streets: Remaking New York City's Public Realm ) far outspanned DC in terms of improving public spaces. They remade it into a full park circle. The city did a plan for the area around 2003.

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Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development 52

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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Parks And Recreation Press Release Strategic Planning Engagement 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Operating safely isn’t a choice. I guess WMATA still has this opportunity with upcoming 50th anniversary of the start of service--2026--to get their "stuff" together, rebuild the consensus, actually figure out how to operate the system, grow it, if possible, etc. We are keeping customers at the center of everything we do.

Transportation 52

Transportation Social Media Fundraising Development 52

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.

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Budgeting Strategic Planning Implementation Development 52

Google Public Sector

DECEMBER 7, 2023

That's why Google Cloud Assured Workloads operates as a switch that customers can use to tailor their execution environment to their unique security and compliance needs. We extend our own sustainability insights to our customers, too. We are helping customers move ' beyond GovClouds: building a secure, AI-enabled government.’

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Public Sector Security Translation Sustainability 97

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

The fact is, except for overly wide avenues, the L'Enfant Plan design for the city and its network of streets and sidewalks prioritizes sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit. But roads and cars are overengineered to allow cars to drive at high speeds regardless of land use context.

Transportation 40

Transportation Campaign Public Health Laws 40

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

the market expectation that the government would not let the companies fail) [2] rather than their own capital strength to sustain the near-government quality market access needed for their business model to work. However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014. government (i.e.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Even as mundane as keeping bbqs, while the trend in parks operations is to remove them. Also see the Wall Street Journal article, " Cities Want Young Families to Play and Stay: New Features Include Parks, Playgrounds and Beer Gardens ," 2014. The park is jointly owned by the city and county,) But also how can we better facilitate use?

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Housing Transportation Engagement 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

By embracing the cloud, organizations benefit from an improved security posture, resiliency , scalability, agility, reduced operational risks, and lower overhead – leveraging cloud providers’ massive investments in security personnel and countermeasures. AWS specialized cloud-optimized chips enable high-performance at cost-effective prices.

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Public Sector Security Sustainability Operations 78

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

1 My view is that the current way they operate – which varies considerably between the four agencies – would be significantly improved if they all applied three key principles: Do risk-adjusting on a practical and easily implementable basis, very much enabled by today’s information processing capabilities.

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