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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Just like DC's public housing fiasco, where 25% of the units are uninhabitable, the massive failures of Metrorail could have been avoided through the execution of sound management, accountability systems, and constant, ongoing oversight. The director then, Mark R. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it. Center cities provide a kind of quality of life benefit to the suburbs, as they tend to provide more services and get more homeless individuals as a result.

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28 April 2017 | The Role of the Pubic Administrators and Some Implications to Our Programs, By Stuart Bretschneider*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Recent efforts by the new administration to change a wide variety of policies and programs has led me to look back at how our field has thought about the role of the public administrator. This is not surprising given that in that time period we saw the emergence of the administrative state.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now the Intermodal Center just houses intercity bus services. -- Rio Grande Plan The plan proposes a tunnel to redirect the railroad passenger services back to the station, as well as a rerouting of the Trax Green Line, with railroad service in a tunnel behind the station and light rail service in front of the station.

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10 March 2017 | Expertise, Advice Seeking, and the President, By Michael Siciliano

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In this instance, the ban appears to have been developed by the White House in isolation, with limited input from experts or from the agencies tasked with implementation. Ignoring the Experts: Networks and Organizational Learning in the Public Sector. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory , 27 (1): 104-119.