Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

In 2022, the city reduced the street mph to 20mph for most neighborhood streets, which in a car oriented city, is at times controversial (" Salt Lake City Council lowers speed limit to 20 mph on 70% of city streets in unanimous vote ," " Salt Lake City swaps first 20 mph speed limit sign in initiative for safer streets ," Salt Lake Tribune ).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

.” Two, as several government officials told me, issues related to subverted price competition in housing and mortgage markets generally have little, if any, impact on election voting outcomes. In other words, vote totals in the next election are now visibly in play. 14 A good glimpse of this occurred in New York State in 2017.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," (2018) -- " Yes the neighborhood will change, but it will take 10-25 years ," (2018) -- " House flipping as reproduction of space ," (2018) -- " Q: Could a community land trust help solve D.C.s gentrification crisis?

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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. Transit fare evasion in DC (and elsewhere).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The trained models were evaluated on three components, including cultural nuance (40 percent), technical performance (40 percent), and real-world applicability based on live audience voting (20 percent). Since 2017, AWS has trained more than 100,000 people in Malaysia in cloud skills.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

The council identified the need to help the missing middle in its updated cultural strategy that is to be voted on by councillors on June 24. Of that lost space, 14,400 square metres was once production space occupied by artists, musicians, writers and performers, a decline of 28 per cent over that time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. More and more women are being elected to City Councils, etc. Gender budgeting.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 16, 2025

Our country is too divided to be able to make necessary changes to government structure, like the small state bias of the Senate and the existence of the Electoral College versus the popular vote for deciding the winner of the Presidential election. Like with the President, there should be a two term limit. Federal Inspector Generals.

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The Lowe Down

APRIL 19, 2023

By comparing the levels of domestic violence between areas that voted for Trump and Clinton, we shed light on whether political frustration leads to an increased frequency of domestic violence calls. During the 2016 election, Charleston County voted for Clinton with a slim majority of 50.6%.

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 4, 2022

The data were gathered from the state’s department of education websites or other state websites, and include the total number of Kindergarten students in a given county from the academic years starting 2017 to 2021. Figure 1 displays the average annual growth rates for the Kindergarten class in each state. .

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

trillion American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes. Even before that, at least 26 Republicans were touting the benefits of the measure to their constituents while neglecting to mention they voted against it. It also will move corporate taxation from the 21% established by the 2017 tax cut up to about 28%. (It

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

From about 2015 to the end of the Obama administration in January 2017, the notion of a congressional solution implemented via legislation went almost totally quiet. In the 2017-18 period, as F&F operations under conservatorship continued to improve, the two companies effectively rehabilitated their reputations in the industry.

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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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