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Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

The city stays on top of road snow clearance, most households shovel their sidewalks, and I don't know what the city does for separated bike lanes--which aren't close to my house, and these days I am unable to bike anyway.

Transportation

Transportation Sustainability Housing Management

"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

JANUARY 29, 2024

Those buildings would create 273 units of housing, some of which would have replaced the existing 174 units at Park Morton while it undergoes redevelopment. 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."

Housing

Housing Development Advocacy Engagement

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. The issue is two-fold, dealing with nonresidents working in or visiting the district, and with residents in their trips outside of the district and within the district.

Transportation

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing

The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail. People don't want to live in fear. cleanliness. Center cities can be pretty dirty.

Public Safety

Public Safety Parks And Recreation Housing Campaign

The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

But in 2015, VA set up the Veterans Experience Office to begin to address the way veterans’ needs were met. Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me.

Constituents

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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

nd building awareness and interest in the institution and the community (" House of Art(s) to open at the Springfield Art Museum ," Springfield News-Leader ), " Drury Students to help with De-Installation of Springfield Art Museum Exhibit ," Ozarks First, " Space as event as ouevre ," Gerard Nadeau). Again, I think this is community building.

Economic Development

Economic Development Housing Development Community Development

Why broadening access to Federal administrative data is critical for improving government services and increasing taxpayer value: An interview with Maria Cancian, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison – Episode #134

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

AUGUST 2, 2016

From 2015 to 2016, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Maria Cancian is a Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the former Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty.

Public Affairs

Public Affairs Government Budgeting Housing

Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 29, 2023

Drive 15 minutes southeast from the heart of downtown Cleveland and you’ll find an unexpected sight: a working urban farm, complete with a burgeoning fruit orchard, chicken coop, and hoop houses. The house is the “ de facto second, third, and fourth responder serving the impoverished residents of the Mt.

Housing

Housing Stewardship Accountability Education

California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

MAY 12, 2023

This correlation occurs because air quality is an amenity that is capitalized into housing prices; cleaner air is among the many goods purchased by more affluent households in California. in 2011-2015 and 0.09 for 2016-2020. in the period 2006-2010. As the average air quality in 2006-2010 is 10.95, this is roughly a 1.4

Public Health

Public Health Accountability Housing

Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units. In terms of overall waste reduction planning, it's essential to include all properties in a jurisdiction within planning (" More on zero waste practice (and DC) ," 2015). WRT solid waste and recycling it's pretty much the same.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Operations Transportation Sanitation

Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

When your commercial real estate market has tanked, it's a bad time to come up with a way to triple the amount of office space, although sure they want housing too, and focusing on adding housing is what Trueblood suggested was the value of pursuing a change. In other words, do the change because you're desperate.

Economic Development

Economic Development Development Advocacy Housing

Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

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. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Development Economic Development Voting

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

This report—produced by the NYU Furman Center and the Urban Institute’s Housing Justice team—uses a mix of public and proprietary data to better understand where those vulnerabilities might lie in New York City. 6 At the same time, the City’s Zoning Resolution (ZR) continues to evolve in response to housing needs.

Outreach

Outreach Housing Laws Development

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

: arts as revitalization versus arts as community building ," (2024) In 2009, I gave a presentation at the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas conference about "arts districts" and theatre as an example of an artistic-discipline focused approach. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural (..)

Transportation

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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)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

Press Release

Press Release Housing Regulations Implementation

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development

Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I just learned that another place where I lived will be demolished for a new dormitory (" Saying goodbye to Ann Arbor's Marshall Court: Houses to be demolished for new dorm ," Ann Arbor News ). Some schools have invested in nearby commercial districts, like Catholic University mentioned above.

Economic Development

Economic Development Education Development Laws

Different smaller housing types other than large apartments

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

They are a form of what used to be called SRO, or Single Room Occupancy housing, but flashier. Also see this BG article from 2015, " Developers, city hope tiny apartments will keep families in Boston "). In 2016, the citys Housing Innovation Lab rolled out a traveling model apartment called the Urban Housing Unit, or UHU.

Housing

Housing Development Regulations Nonprofit

2024 in Libraries

Librarian.net

JANUARY 5, 2025

Totally a homebody this year; seventy library visits and most of them within a half mile of my house. Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. I liked working at my library.

Housing

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

focused on capturing worker trips but open to all ," (2017) -- " Revisiting assistance programs to get people biking: 26 programs ," (2024, original 2015, updated 2020) -- " Repeating b.s. Transit stations as marketing touchpoints and as a design product: i this line of inquiry started when DC let a new bus shelter contract in 2005.

Transportation

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Music in the American Wild ( webpage , Eastman School of Music) was a program where new music compositions were commissioned to play in 12 National Parks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the park system in 2016. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. Monuments that are controversial.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security

Public Administration Today

Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

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

Trending Sources

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

The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

The Future Is Customer-Centered

The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Why broadening access to Federal administrative data is critical for improving government services and increasing taxpayer value: An interview with Maria Cancian, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison – Episode #134

Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

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

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

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

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Different smaller housing types other than large apartments

2024 in Libraries

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

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