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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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.

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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. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions.

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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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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

JULY 11, 2023

During his tenure, the State has successfully supported the response to and recovery from numerous major disasters to include the COVID Pandemic, the SR 530 Oso Landslide, the record-setting wildfire seasons of 2014 and 2015, and a host of devastating weather events.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

degrees F) as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) and ideally 1.5 degrees C (2.7 The latest science shows that emissions will need to drop. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 7, 2024

My problem with it is that they focus on the temporary, while to build an arts as production ecosystem, you need sustained efforts. And while it's very important to focus on building the community of artists, at the sa.me And while it's very important to focus on building the community of artists, at the sa.me

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. At that time, they designated 5 areas, invested a lot in urban design, public art, and sustainable mobility connections between the districts and Downtown. The state later developed its own program.

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A Library Writer's Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

ACRL’s strategic plan and ALA’s Core Values of access, equity, intellectual freedom and privacy, public good, and sustainability can inform this conversation. Later, in 2015, Gorman published a subsequent edition titled Our Enduring Values Revisited: Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework "). 15 years ago I first wrote that WMATA needed to rebuild the regional consensus about the value of transit: -- " St. It's about speed versus access.

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A Library Writer's Blog

MAY 14, 2024

ACRL’s strategic plan and ALA’s Core Values of access, equity, intellectual freedom and privacy, public good, and sustainability can inform this conversation. Later, in 2015, Gorman published a subsequent edition titled Our Enduring Values Revisited: Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MAY 3, 2017

billion in state funds on pre-kindergarten programs in 2015, highlighting the emphasis that policymakers are placing on pre-k to help students prepare for elementary school. Research has shown both the success of pre-K as well as inconclusive evidence about the sustainability of those gains as children become older.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, we launched our first project with North-East Essex, covering around 300,000 patients. Unless we change the remit of our health service, the only way we are sustainably going to continue to deliver free healthcare without massively raising taxes is through technology. That’s how Consultant Connect grew.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

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. The city is responsible for certain types of recycling.

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A Library Writer's Blog

JULY 24, 2023

LOEX Fall Focus 2023 Conference Call for Proposals Mid-November 2023 * Online As mentioned in the previous Currents, LOEX is holding a Fall Focus conference, our first since 2015—only this time it will be online.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In the 2015 budget process, the city engaged in a streamlined PBB process, recognizing the significant work that had been done in prior years, as well as the demands on staff related to flood recovery and the implementation of an integrated Finance and Human Resources business solutions software package.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Can e-bikes become sustainable mobility conquests versus the car? It will be hard, because our mobility system is set up for automobiles. But even if 5% of automobile users could be converted to e-bike users, or at least to use an e-bike some of the time, it would have a significant impact on congestion, air quality, etc.

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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.

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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. . -- " "Government" or "advocacy" approaches: either/or vs. and/and and DC area regional trails planning ," 2020 The Salt Lake Valley is served by the Wasatch Front Regional Council , and the MPO function is one element of its mission.

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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.

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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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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. And as one of the early citizen directors of BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, used to say about planning for transit expansion--don't put it off, because construction costs only go up.

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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. Or the Norfolk light rail. And as a result, the Norfolk light rail is pretty much a failure, with ridership less than a DC bus line.

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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. This might be a way to amp up the planning function.

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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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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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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 Boulder, Colorado recently stated that " priority based budgeting is the "framework" in which all budget decisions are made."

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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). QuickSight TASMAX CDD median – year comparison tree map for 2015 and 2099 showing proportional sum.

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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

Also: -- " Another example of how a RFP (request for proposals) isn't a plan ," (2015) -- " What to do about public input when seemingly public facilities are privately owned?:

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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

MAY 10, 2024

For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.

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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 ). This ability to respond and recover from disruption, from crisis situations, is called community resilience.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In fact, I mention that as an issue a lot in terms of funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s the natural environment (open space, rivers, tree cover, watershed, etc.),

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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. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“If we really want to talk about sustainability in the design field and respect for the environment, the first step an architect must take, paradoxically, is not to build,” says Grima, adding that his profession has historically “been very animated by the impetus to do new things”.

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