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Public safety: Without a safe place to deposit their money, unbanked people are more likely to be victims of crime because they often carry large sums of cash with them or keep cash in their homes. Emily joined First Western in June of 2017 and currently serves as CRA Analyst. Emily Gardner, Senior CRA Analyst.

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Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since that year, police records show, transit officers have dramatically shifted away from enforcing fare evasion across the rail and bus system, with citations and arrests numbering less than 300 last year, compared with more than 15,000 in 2017. Of that 2021 total, none took place in the District.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. Extend the building underground and up (maybe have to buy a couple houses) to put in an underground auditorium/space (perhaps on the C Street side) to replace but continue the arts functions of North Hall, and put in an underground pool.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail. Not mixed commercial use.

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Times Square Alliance Streetwatch program for reporting problems in the public space

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Maintenance of public spaces is a key element of public safety. The whole concept of "broken windows theory" (" Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety ," Atlantic Magazine , 1982) is based on the findings that high quality maintenance in public spaces reduces the likelihood of disorder. So here goes.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I don't understand when elected officials don't appreciate how important getting public safety under control was to inward investment and population growth in the 2000s. OTOH, having lived in DC in the 1980s and 1990s when things hit bottom, I am anti-disorder to the nth degree. into a global learning hub.”.

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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Magazine -- " Women's Place: Urban Planning, Housing Design, and WorkFamily Balance ," Fordham Law Review -- " Women in the Urban Environment ," Signs Vol. DC's Muriel Bowser is one such example, but there are many others, including Houston, Salt Lake City, and in 2017, Seattle and Montreal. 3, Supplement. Gender budgeting.