Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It's more imperative with the focus on electric biking. -- " Bike to Work Day as an opportunity to assess the state of bicycle planning: Part 2, building a network of bike facilities at the regional scale ," 2017 Many communities, including DC (" D.C.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

See item #10 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 3: Program items 10-18 " (2017), for the concept. It's the gateway to Eastern Market and Capitol Hill so verve and disorder matters (" Eastern Market Comittee Asks Council for Public Safety Improvements ," Hill Rag ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 26, 2022

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 27, 2023

Now, the focus has shifted to public safety." Music City Center CEO Charles Starks told board members recently that convention attendees are hesitant to venture downtown between meetings. "It It used to be that the first questions we got were about sustainability, food service and tech," Starks said.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

DC's Muriel Bowser is one such example, but there are many others, including Houston, Salt Lake City, and in 2017, Seattle and Montreal. In 2017, the Economist ran a provocative editorial, " Why governments should introduce gender budgeting ," building on an earlier article, " Why national budgets need to take gender into account."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more. A Republican won the governorship in 2021 and that was a shock although Ralph Youngkin ran a better campaign than former Governor Terry McAuliffe along with lower Democratic turnout.

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