Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

I used to write yearly about this, focusing on how the sustainable mobility centric city needs snow removal policies that co-equally privilege walking, biking and transit users, not just the motor vehicle parts of roads.

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Reprogramming the City

APRIL 1, 2023

Recent advancements in waste to energy (WtE) technologies have offered a promising solution for repurposing waste into energy, providing a sustainable and efficient means of managing waste while also generating valuable energy. Incineration, for example, can reduce waste volume by up to 90% (European Commission, 2017).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

These incentives standardize processes and motivate behaviors that achieve the objectives of these initiatives in a way that can be sustained over time. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invested in the development of Prozorro, which is estimated to have saved Ukraine’s government $6 billion since 2017.

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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. The project’s value lies in its nomadic, temporary and sustainable approach. Behind the Blue Doors: Repurposed Railway Arches Become Affordable Workspaces.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

When moving from on-premises to AWS in 2017, PNNL designed the Aether framework to embrace AWS-managed services and serverless technologies wherever possible, largely bypassing a lift-and-shift migration. Iterating on each instance of the framework, the PNNL team developed IaC, dramatically improving time to deployment and instantiation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Max shared regional announcements and local stories of how public sector customers are using the cloud to transform citizen services, innovate in healthcare, improve sustainability, and more. Shaping a sustainable future using AWS. Since 2017, AWS has trained more than 200,000 people in Australia through our various learning offerings.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

With the Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE) workshop, our team of Transformation Consultants helps partners accelerate their journey with AWS by teaching them how to build a sustainable Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE) When businesses undergo a major change in operations, they need a plan.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 7, 2023

Disasters that have been responded to include devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017, the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and today’s ongoing conflict in Ukraine. In the last three years combined, EAF awarded over $205 million in financial assistance to more than 295,000 individuals and families in need around the world.In

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

AWS cloud computing has helped train 200,000 Canadians in technical skills since 2017. A new $100,000 AWS community grant fund launched in 2023 supports Calgary sustainability initiatives. Amazon has invested in four renewable energy projects in Alberta to supply AWS data centers sustainably. billion to Alberta’s GDP by 2037.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 30, 2017

In a new study published in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Greg Duncan and his co-authors set out to identify the key features of interventions that can be expected to sustain persistently beneficial program impacts. That might include analytical thinking, delayed gratification delay or grit.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Boulder has recently published their 2017 Recommended Budget. And for a much deeper dive, please see the full City of Boulder 2017 Recommended Budget (with a focus on Strategies and Priorities on pages 54 - 67). A listing of all 2017 programs by quartile is included in the following section.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MAY 23, 2023

He is a Past President, 2017-2021, and is now back to piloting ships and doing information outreach. He is a Past President, 2017-2021, and is now back to piloting ships and doing information outreach. The guest, Captain Eric Von Brandenfels is an experienced mariner and Puget Sound Pilot. He is married with two grown children.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

She served on the council for the American Meteorological Society (AMS) from 2017-2020, and was the 2021 AMS Annual Meeting co-chair, bringing in nearly 5000 attendees, and the first time ever as a virtual conference. She was recently elected as a "Fellow" of the AMS in 2024 for outstanding contributions to the field of meteorology.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

. -- " The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ," 2017 -- " Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland ," International Journal of Sustainable Transportation , 2018 When I first (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework "). It took me until 2017 to write an entry specifically mentioning the German VV as the way forward for the DC area, the organization I suggested could be called the DMVTA.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. One 2017 study put its annual lift to Berkshire County at just more than $50 million. By agenda I mean the set of challenges which policy makers accord priority. The state later developed its own program.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MAY 3, 2017

Research has shown both the success of pre-K as well as inconclusive evidence about the sustainability of those gains as children become older. In April 2017 the Pre-Kindergarten Task Force presented their findings. Forty-two states and the District of Columbia spent $6.2

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ).

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, residents recently partnered with NEON and local nonprofit TechnoServe to adopt NEON protocols for sampling groundwater to measure nitrate levels, checking if their local well water was safe for consumption.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Especially because with cities, it's possible to visit and tour without a car, but instead by sustainable mobility--transit especially and sometimes biking. See " City Break Tourism, the rental car shortage, and transit/sustainable mobility as a way to get around: Part 1." Transit marketing for tourism.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. 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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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 9, 2022

Grant Ervin, Pittsburgh’s Chief Resilience Officer, recalls a conversation with colleagues on the budget and finance side of Pittsburgh in 2017 “We were so excited about what we wanted to do, and they kept calling our projects ‘unicorn projects,’” recalls Ervin. C increase above pre-industrial levels.

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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 ability to share data across these departments was an obvious barrier.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations.

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This partnership is vital—the program uses the City’s legal power to acquire tenant-occupied, tax-delinquent, primarily single-family properties, sells the properties to the tenants, and provides funding and assistance for repairs and education and resources to help sustain their homeownership.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. Create sustainable mobility districts and corridors as appropriate, complementing the transit network improvements, especially in the Tysons area, which is planned, but far behind in implementation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options. . -- " "Government" or "advocacy" approaches: either/or vs. and/and and DC area regional trails planning ," 2020 The Salt Lake Valley is served by the Wasatch Front Regional Council , and the MPO function is one element of its mission.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

See the following: Manufactured Housing, Modular Housing and Zoning (2020); Abandoned Manufactured Homes: What’s Next (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight: Some Next Steps (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight (2018); Marco Polo and Mobile Home Spaces (2017); Mobile Homes and Property Taxes (2010); Transforming Trailers into Assets (2005).

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

This plan is comprised of eight priority areas and five pillars of sustainability, based on the strategic planning framework developed by current and previous councils.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

That even so, transit (and sustainable mobility) is what distinguishes DC from the suburbs and that you need more of it to continue to differentiate DC as a place to choose to live and conduct business. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017), are beyond remarkable. Or the Norfolk light rail.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In 2017, the City of Bethlehem enlisted Reinvestment Fund and its partners Consulting and Atria Planning in the creation of a data-driven plan, dubbed the Bethlehem Blight Betterment Infinitive, or B3. Additionally, the task force recognized that maintaining current data on blight is instrumental to sustained blight management.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The director then, Mark R. Aesch, later wrote a book about his experience there, Driving Excellence: Transform Your Organization's Culture -- And Achieve Revolutionary Results.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

sustainable mobility. In general, people don't want schools to be bad. WRT "daycare" one rise in PreK education for 3 to 5 year olds in cities like DC and NYC is to address the dearth of quality daycare and the expense. Transit, walking, biking, car share need to be viable options. civic assets need to be available.

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Social Pinpoint

MAY 28, 2023

Public engagement is any process that involves the public in problem solving or decision-making and uses public input to make sustainable and enduring decisions. This article was originally published in 2017. Public engagement includes all aspects of identifying problems and opportunities, developing alternatives and making decisions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

. -- " Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen, Japan, as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning | Planning and executing complementary improvements across the transit network + advances in transit marketing ," 2022 -- " Revisiting the Purple Line (series) and a more complete program of complementary improvements to the transit network ," 2019/2020, (..)

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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. It will be hard work, and even more hard work will have to go into making the result sustainable as society continues to change at an ever accelerating rate.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

While the concept was spurred by my writings on the Purple Line light rail system coming to suburban Maryland, -- " (Big Hairy) Projects Action Plan(s) as an element of Comprehensive/Master Plans ," 2017 but also best practice programs I've across and not always written about. They remade it into a full park circle.

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