AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

million Thai citizens seeking treatment for pollution-related illnesses at the start of 2024 ( up 23 percent from 2023, according to data from the country’s National Economic and Social Development Council). Since 2015, AWS has made major investments in Thailand, serving customers and unlocking transformation across industries.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Since 2015, the AWS Well-Architected Framework has been helping AWS customers and partners improve their cloud architectures and reduce their technical risk. In its development process, the Government Lens was tested with government leaders and AWS Partners, whose feedback has been incorporated in this launch.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2024

From the article: The Sustainable DC Plan, which came out in 2013, said the District should begin diverting 80% of its waste away from landfills and incinerators by 2032. I've written about DC's waste practices for years (" More on zero waste practice and DC ," 2015). It's boutique, not substantive.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

That even so, transit (and sustainable mobility) is what distinguishes DC from the suburbs and that you need more of it to continue to differentiate DC as a place to choose to live and conduct business. From Encyclopedia Brittanica : Incrementalism was first developed in the 1950s by the American political scientist Charles E.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 7, 2024

What’s really happening to the visitor is they’re starting to develop their own curatorial skills,” he says. “If My problem with it is that they focus on the temporary, while to build an arts as production ecosystem, you need sustained efforts. If I go to a gallery or museum, somebody has selected everything for me.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

"Now integrated into its seventh consecutive year of budget development, PBB is the framework within which all budget decisions are made." 2017 PBB Outcomes Now integrated into its seventh consecutive year of budget development, PBB is the framework within which all budget decisions are made. increase over 2016.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

From a PI blog entry in 2015 : The Navy Yard development is home to GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Outfitters, a Marriott and about 140 other companies. Another two million square feet is slated to be developed and the previous feasibility study estimated about 8,000 people would use rail service by 2045. About 13,000 people work there.

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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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Peak Proposals

MAY 3, 2020

Based on hundreds of emails we’ve received since we launched Peak Proposals in 2015, we have observed that many people appear to assume that if you are a nonprofit organization and if you need revenue, then you must pursue grant funding. This is not the case. Not all grant applications require weeks and months of labor.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

Their existing initiatives include the Sankofa District, a stretch of Salina Street that was rebranded by the city in 2015 to pay respect to those displaced from the historically Black 15th Ward, as well as the Salt City Market and Westside Gateway Projects. The Syracuse fellows are: Patrona Jones?Rowser

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options. But I guess they don't have a set of basic standards about what a regional bikeway network should look like and how it should be implemented.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2023

But a failure to keep renewing the space, a fall off in tourism after the Freddie Gray riots in 2015, and the unfortunate occurrence of a lousy property manager buying the complex combined to drive it into ruin. Have an advisory committee with developers and key organizations. Instead of a task force. Have a public process.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

sustainable mobility. In a more micro sense, it's about refocusing on business districts as places for residence, and the factors that matter, as opposed to previous focus on outlying neighborhoods. -- " Keeping families in cities: safety; schools; space + money ," 2015 Or true mixed use. civic assets need to be available.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. Create sustainable mobility districts and corridors as appropriate, complementing the transit network improvements, especially in the Tysons area, which is planned, but far behind in implementation.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

PBB contributes to a community’s long-term financial sustainability and allows communities to better serve their residents in the most effective, efficient and fiscally responsible manner possible. The City of Toledo has just launched its implementation of Priority Based Budgeting, with the development of its Program and Services Inventory.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

AWS hosts National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6) data through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Deploy infrastructure as code (IaC) using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) with Python.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A core focus of the Future of Government Awards is the importance of open source,” said Joe Hooper, director of the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development. In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs.

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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. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 2, 2023

Like the idea of individual resiliency, “community resilience is a measure of the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations” ( RAND Corporation ). It matters for economic development. 363) Social capital matters.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Louis regional transit planning process as a model for what needs to be done in the DC Metropolitan region ," 2009 And some of that seems to be happening, at least with the local commuter line (" Brightline, Orlando and Orange County collaborate on potential convention center rail route ," Orlando Business Journal ).

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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?”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

That means that decision-making on land use and zoning, business issues, infrastructure development (roads, sewers, water, utilities, transit), technology (broadband Internet, etc.), Suburban – or so-called "edge" cities – are developing cultural infrastructure that, if not necessarily on par with what is downtown, is bound to impress.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Agglomeration economies and the biotech cluster in Cambridge Massachusetts.The Globe article explains why I am such a proponent of face to face, cluster development and agglomeration economies. Small-firm economic development in the cultural sectors. Location of arts development agencies and companies. Stable arts funding.

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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. Krimgold (eds) 2015.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Basically, I'm interested in continuous process improvement and iterative learning (" Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory ," 2023) applied to government and social program improvement. Since Brady left, the team has languished, really badly.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. commission backs down on censoring art ," Washington Post ).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

In fact, it hasn’t seriously tried to enact such changes since about 2015. See White House Factsheet, January 7, 2015, “Making Homeownership More Accessible and Sustainable,” next to the last section. This constituted a major weakness of the proposals.]]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. commission backs down on censoring art ," Washington Post ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The actual Source Theater group disbanded, and with the purchase by Cultural Development Corporation later in 2006, the building was retained for use by cultural groups, more as a rental facility. And consider the development of an allied tourism management and development plan, either separately or within the same framework; 3.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Building neighborhood confidence/The Myth of Community Development. He then mentioned a New York Times Magazine article, " The Myth of Community Development ," by Nicholas Lemann about why community development corporations mostly didn't succeed at improving neighborhoods. First develop a new practice and figure out if it works.

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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. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic. That's not the case.

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