Reprogramming the City

MARCH 5, 2021

London firm Boano Prišmontas developed a modular structure for a project that repurposed railway arches and can be used in other marginal spaces in the city to create temporary affordable workspaces. Behind the Blue Doors: Repurposed Railway Arches Become Affordable Workspaces.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

I went house-to-house with a clipboard documenting the conditions of vacant properties that dotted its beautiful brick streets. Community Progress has supported TCLB from the land bank’s inception and was recently engaged to lead the development of its 2023-27 Strategic Plan.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 19, 2023

In fact, just recently, the White House hosted its global ransomware summit , which brought three dozen nations, the EU, and private businesses together to discuss the threat landscape and this evolving threat vector. Soon after, many organisations educated themselves and adopted appropriate mitigation methods.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

I've written so much about how Prince George's County, Maryland has been handed so many opportunities to reposition the county around transit oriented development, yet they've failed to take advantage of the opportunities time and time again. Gensler/Urban Atlantic). And it is a part of #12 in the action points list in the 2014 piece.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Also see " Op-Ed in Washington Post about preserving affordable housing in the Purple Line corridor (Department of Duh) " from earlier in the year on the same topic. It's what you call a "priming effect." And you want that to happen, since you're spending billions of dollars on it.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

As somebody who led a digital transformation program in the UK government and who now listens to government transformation leaders around the world, I joined the panel with leaders from the International Monetary Fund Capacity Development, the World Bank, and Brazil’s federal government. The frameworks they developed became the GOV.UK

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, where she oversaw the development of a new science and technology strategy for the branch.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters " ( Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4)," to music as a performing art in terms of developing "music as production" as opposed to "music as consumption." From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

When Justin Davis joined the BMV in 2017 as Contact Center Director, the employee attrition rate there was almost 200% per year, while customer satisfaction ratings were sinking. The bureau found that unhappy employees tended to provide poorer service, using negative language or rushing to end calls.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ").

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 5, 2024

According to one study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “the shift to remote work accounts for more than half of overall house price growth over the pandemic.” Conversely, demand for residential real estate has surged, partly fueled by remote work. This is mirrored in local data for North Carolina.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

From the article: THE TYPICAL TRAJECTORY for an urban arts community goes something like this: A couple of creative types set up shop in a neighborhood bypassed by development. Mycella Collective. The buildings might be run down, but rents are cheap, and more artists follow. Magic ensues for a few years.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

The review highlights how new research developments can facilitate a shift towards "upstream," or preventative, homelessness interventions, while making necessary "downstream" emergency services more equitable and effective. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). 2021 ; Gubits et al. Coordination challenges between agencies (e.g.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

Increases in housing density in the decade leading up to the study period (more units mean low-income people have a place to live even as higher-income people move into the neighborhood); and 8. The presence of community-building organizations (which can put up housing and strengthen social ties) Discussion. how about Waverly etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. Technically.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses." Moore-Bick, M.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the meantime, the San Diego cyber community will continue to shape My eCISO through the collective development of guidelines. The DxHub student and customer experience At the Cal Poly DxHub, students work hand-in-hand with university staff and Amazon employees to develop new and exciting public sector solutions like My eCISO.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Transit oriented development is economic development. Complementary improvements for the transit network and economic development. Japan Railway Journal recently featured a new episode on it, " Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen: Half a Century since its inception. Watching the program was seeing TPAS in action. Wkipedia photo.

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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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Government Technology Insider

MAY 23, 2024

ACCESS Sonoma emerged in 2017 as a way to combat data siloing between various safety net departments , sharing data from various health and human services programs in a hybrid cloud-based environment. The county developed a smartphone app designed to help young people connect with services and resources.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 6, 2022

One estimate suggests that more than 5 million homes that were originally owner-occupied transitioned to rental homes between 2006 and 2017. Especially in weaker markets, many investors have left the properties vacant, where they continue to hold back local housing markets. percent were purchased by NCST community partners.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 18, 2022

Las Vegas Boulevard, May 25th, 2017. For example, 75% of housing in France doesn't have air conditioning. More for design aesthetics probably, but increasingly these kinds of measures should be taken within parks and place planning, to make places more resilient wrt heat and sun. Photo: Richard Brian, Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2017, one study estimated that the cost of care for patients suffering from the nine most common neurological conditions amounted to nearly $800 billion in the US alone. To address this, icometrix developed a machine learning (ML)-based analysis pipeline. A new pipeline was developed using a hybrid approach.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

As the local government minister, Jim McMahon, told the House of Commons last week: When we talk about important community assets, we see from an economic point of view that it is far better for them to be used and be productive, but we also recognise that they are hugely important to community identity and pride.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The article discusses how the Regional Transit Service in Rochester New York developed "partnership" funding agreements with schools, colleges, and businesses to provide financial support beyond farebox revenue, to support mutual agreed upon objectives. The director then, Mark R. It's worth a read. historic architecture 2.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 7, 2023

Obviously it's not new that high quality schools track to housing values etc. A Qualitative Case Study of a School Closure in an Urban School District " evaluating the closure of a declared underperforming school in Colorado illustrates the rancor that results when the process isn't developed in a collaborative way. Salt Lake.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

an urban design dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. I argue that a lot of urban policy was developed when cities where losing population and stabilization was the primary goal, staunching outmigration. historic architecture 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 8, 2024

And complaints about being under-amenitized on the West Side center around a conspiracy against POC but because of lack of population and commercial centers, and historical developments--the west side population was close to downtown anyway, which was the regional business and retail center before sprawl. Chinatown ," Washington Post , 2011).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The larger academic publishers are now introducing software that can detect duplicate submission, but unfortunately it can only do so within a single publishing house. Despite the development of increasingly powerful software to detect malpractice, it is proliferating as more and more scholars seek to publish their work. Graff, H.J.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

For example, the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 are united in their quest for justice and decent living conditions. Rather than searching for the 'community', I advocate identifying, utilising and developing specific mechanisms. But how does this translate into community resilience?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S.

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