Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Illustration from The House Book by Keith DuQuette, showing the intensification of land use as you move from suburban areas to the center city. From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin? Some units are called “granny flats.”

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Reprogramming the City

MARCH 5, 2021

It is the winning entry of the “ Arches Challenge Competition ”, launched In 2017 by Meanwhile Space and supported by Lambeth Council and the Mayor of London. 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. Ideally, families would once more be able to call these derelict properties home—but we were unsure exactly how to make that happen.

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Bang the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Taking the perspectives of tenants on board is increasingly necessary, particularly since the Grenfell disaster in the UK in 2017. Although tenant participation is becoming more common when it comes to planning social housing, the ability for tenants to influence their landlords remains considerably limited.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

Housing : A patient’s housing status - either without housing or inconsistent housing (housing insecure) - ,can impact health outcomes significantly. Google Cloud’s support of the SDOH Challenge is just the latest in a long standing collaboration with the University of California, which dates back to 2017.

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

A central finding of the review is that current research illustrates the importance of structural, or macro, causes of homelessness, and the need for policy responses that ameliorate high housing costs, low incomes, and income inequality. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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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. Prior to that, she represented New Mexico in the United States Congress for 10 years, and served on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Armed Services Committee.

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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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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

APRIL 18, 2023

Debris can come in all shapes and sizes to include cars, houses and hazardous materials. Rob has led major US disaster debris operations across the US including, most recently, Corps of Engineer missions for the 2017 CA wildfires; Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Ian; 2022 Kentucky floods.

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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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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 4, 2021

In a special issue of Housing Policy Debate on evictions, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophie House, and Ryan Brenner analyze early findings from the NYC Universal Access to Counsel program (UAC). As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court.

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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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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

OCTOBER 19, 2022

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 26, 2016

In preparing the 2017 budget, we will aspire higher. So, for 2017, we need to FIRST get our priorities straight and THEN align our money with our stated priorities. We want our lower priority programs to be the funding source for our most impactful, highest priority initiatives.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The organization calls itself Seattle’s Creative Industrial Complex, which sounds a bit over the top until you consider that the main complex now covers almost an entire block and houses nearly 150 photographers, printmakers, woodworkers, ceramists, stone carvers, blacksmiths and just about any other creative specialty you can imagine.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

The city stays on top of road snow clearance, most households shovel their sidewalks, and I don't know what the city does for separated bike lanes--which aren't close to my house, and these days I am unable to bike anyway.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 13, 2017

Prior to his work with DC, he was one of the founders of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team at the White House, which applied insights from the behavioral sciences to improving federal agency operations. .” To learn more, we are joined by the Lab’s founding director, David Yokum.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

DOS supported bespoke teams such as developers, researchers, designers, and delivery leaders to complement the in-house government team. The UK G-Cloud framework supported standardized items such as cloud hosting, storage, and networking. The frameworks they developed became the GOV.UK Digital Marketplace.

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The City of Detroit’s innovative Make it Home program harnesses the power of a traditionally harmful system—the property tax foreclosure process—and uses it to increase affordable homeownership, improve housing conditions, and stabilize neighborhoods. Overview and History of Detroit’s Make it Home Program.

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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. Uncleared sidewalks from 1300 East to Sugar House Park. Levels of Service at the scale of an individual park is an issue with Sugar House Park. Technically.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The author makes the point that it's not easy to get from his house to a subway station, especially for trips to the airport, which include luggage. Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020).

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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. To learn more about the cloud-based innovation that is supporting communities, click here.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Launched in 2017 as the first CIC housed in an institution of higher education, the Cal Poly DxHub provides opportunities for nonprofits, educational bodies, and government agencies to collaborate on their most pressing challenges, test new ideas, and access the technological expertise of AWS to help create cloud-based solutions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

The new train hall at New Carrollton aims to bind together the development of offices, housing and shops. Gensler/Urban Atlantic). Conclusion. A train hall isn't enough to transform New Carrollton, although I should have included it as a suggestion on the list of actions in the original piece.

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Super Library Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2022

The terrifying lead character from the Stephen King film “It,” remade and re-released in 2017, is hanging out in your city. Housing your story on your website has an added benefit. Imagine for a moment that you are walking down a city street, minding your own business when you see the clown Pennywise. That’s right.

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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. One in three people globally is thought to suffer from a neurological disorder at some point.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It presupposes the opportunity to coordinate economic development and revitalization programs alongside the transit program, as laid out in such entries as: -- " Creating a transportation development authority in Montgomery and Prince George's County to effectuate placemaking, retail development, and housing programs in association with the Purple (..)

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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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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. Predatory publishing has in turn spawned a whole industry of predatory academic conferences and sham editorial boards (Stratton 2017). False authorship. Graff, H.J.

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