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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening. The Washington Post reports (" D.C. But those facilities are all privately owned.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

WMATA has even more issues because if either Maryland or Virginia have Republican Governors, it makes it very difficult to develop consensus support for such a tax, because they see it, justifiably or not, as helping DC disproportionately. My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. Funding options. I don't know.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail.

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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

JULY 4, 2023

My response was you don't develop such relationships in crisis, but when times are good, and hopefully, those relationships and funding streams can survive exogenous shocks. Transit financing My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. And absolutely that it is a key issue. Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting.

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Data.gov

MARCH 12, 2015

March 18th 2015 In a continued effort to provide key datasets that support the process of developing resilience to climate change, five additional datasets are now available in the Ecosystem Vulnerability theme. Those include: California Ocean Uses Atlas Environmental Sensitivity … Continued.

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Data.gov

JULY 28, 2015

WASHINGTON, July 27, 2015 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is partnering with Microsoft to launch the “Innovation Challenge,” a competition to develop software applications that help farmers, agriculture businesses, and consumers explore how climate change will affect their food systems.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

That's because with the way we've designed the transportation system for automobility, you can get away with minimal pre-planning, unless you're going to an out of the way place. MPOs and "active transportation." And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 4, 2022

And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). DC should get on the bandwagon.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 2, 2023

Transportation accidents. Magis ( 2010 ) similarly defines it as “the existence, development and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterized by change, uncertainty, unpredictability and surprise” (p. It matters for economic development. Earthquakes. Ice storms. Grid failure.

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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. Other areas too.) Giants fans leave the MUNI headed for the park.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2.

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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 20, 2023

And probably the death of Joe Englert, the impresario who helped develop many of the early establishments on the corridor, many with particularly interesting and creative business models, hasn't helped. My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management.

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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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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

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. Not mixed commercial use. Or some housing on top of retail.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Work First (TANF) , which provides direct cash assistance as well as assistance with childcare, transportation, job searches, and job training for eligible families who need help achieving self-sufficiency through employment. 122, 137–38 (2015) (internal citations, quotation marks, and punctuation omitted). State , 368 N.C.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 19, 2024

Envision the Choptank was founded in 2015 to help solve that problem. Greene, who runs an organic farm near Jonestown on land that was once a station on the Underground Railroad, serves on Envision’s steering committee and on the board of the Jonestown Community Development Corporation (CDC). Provide flexible and timely funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. Out of region visitors spend on lodging, food, and transportation. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? A lot more about that below.

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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

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. This entry became very long, so I broke it up.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

There were a couple of other reports too: DC at the Crossroads: Transportation Choices Today Could Bring Pleasant Living, Less Traffic Tomorrow by the local chapter of Friends of the Earth, and reports for the Financial Control Board by Alice Rivlin.) Building neighborhood confidence/The Myth of Community Development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2025

As I wrote before, I'd rather see a reconfiguring of HUD around Cities, Regions and Urban Ecology (sustainability), merging in some parts of the EPA and DOE smart growth operations, local and regional Economic Development aspects of the Dept. of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Sustainability, and refigure the departments some.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The goal was to test the theory that if people are given quality transportation choices, they will use them. It certainly seems like a fair trade off to make the corridor safer and more convenient for alternative modes of transportation which was the purpose of the project. The project, called Move Culver City , was a 1.3 Two minutes.

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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

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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