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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Some cities like Boston , Denver and Seattle have active pro-walking groups which are a model for improving places, technical assistance, and advocacy. -- In Arlington County, WalkArlington does community walks. Planning and advocacy. Sometimes they're led by the elected official for that district. Goes without saying.

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"Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers."

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Because that space doesn't exist in DC, either innovative uses don't develop -- such as the nonprofit advocacy sector, which as cheap spaces disappeared groups stopped being created counter to the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s -- or they develop in the suburbs.

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Using Data to Prevent the Loss of Home Equity in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” New York, NY: 2016; Way 2024. “Taking the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (UPHPA) out of the Rural Context and Strengthening It: The New York Experience and a Framework for UPHPA Advocacy.” 2 (June 2015). .” Atlanta, GA: 2013; Moodie et al. 2023; Pippin et al. 17 Hincken 2021. 31 Copeland, Roy.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

trillion in 2016, which at the time was almost twice the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and became the largest source of GSE profits. Or is it just a case, in a highly politicized industry, of a politically convenient advocacy rationale to justify not increasing G-fees? The two portfolios together peaked at over $1.5