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City of Kenmore Officials Find the Fun in 2017-18 Priority Based Budget

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Where Kenmore particularly stands out, is in their commitment to apply PBB not only to their ongoing operations, but to their capital projects as well. The total proposed budget for the 2017-18 biennium is $55.9 For the 2017-18 biennium, $4.5 What’s next The 2017-18 budget will be up for discussion again at the council’s Nov.

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From Waste to Energy: How Urban Waste is Powering Our Cities

Reprogramming the City

This process significantly reduces the volume of waste while also recovering energy from the waste material (European Commission, 2017). The plant converts food waste and wastewater into biogas, which is then used to generate electricity for the facility’s operations (EBMUD, 2020).

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Revisiting the need for comprehensive transportation planning at the metropolitan and regional scales | For profit services, and White's Ferry, Montgomery and Loudoun Counties

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Mostly, a master plan only covers what the government controls or operates, and usually ignores for profit services, and often, franchised services. But it's a demonstration of a quirk in planning generally and transportation planning specifically. The point of planning is to be proactive, not reactive.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). It lacks a national emergency operations centre. In The Hague there is a compact but technologically advanced operations centre.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. It's about speed versus access.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it starts with decent cultural planning: -- " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators ," 2018 The preeminent example is SEMAEST of Paris, although it deals primarily with retail uses. No reason the model can't be extended to arts and culture.