GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

In 2018, the bureau made a big training push, updating curricula and ensuring that all employees received training in their first two weeks on the job, according to the BMV’s 2018 annual report. ” This article appears in “ Improving Customer Experience: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide.”

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The complexities noted here are compounded by the fact that tremendous growth and affordable housing needs are in urban areas, while the vast majority of this type of housing is found in rural areas (see the great maps on housing shortage and surplus found in this recent New York Times article ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

From the article: English councils collectively went on a near 7bn commercial property buying spree, a journey which has now proved to be responsible for bringing some of them to the edge of bankruptcy. But Labours overall communities strategy needs to be considerably fleshed out if its impact is to be transformative.

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GovLoop

MAY 19, 2023

Such a shortage makes it difficult for any organization to develop systems and processes to prevent cyberattacks, and to respond quickly and effectively when attacks happen. This article appears in our guide “ Bright Ideas for Making Cyber Stick.” Everyone else is a partner [in the process].”

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GovLoop

JANUARY 4, 2024

Like many local agencies, the Auditor’s Office in Travis County, Texas, needed to do more with less: While a dynamic housing market increased the volume of property tax refunds by 25% annually since 2018, the office received no extra funding to complete its legally required audits. You need a human being to verify the potential findings.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

From the article: Part 1: Colorado alcohol deaths surged 60% in 4 years, but there’s been no public outcry or push to save lives Coloradans die from the effects of alcohol at one of the highest rates in the country, but, in comparison to fentanyl, the state’s reaction has been a shrug.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

"Buy the Mother F Building Already" is a series of entries about best practice and worst practice in buying, holding, and developing properties for arts and culture related uses. My lament was the lack of systematic, community-wide initiatives to buy, hold, develop and preserve properties for arts and culture related uses.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

The Federal Data Strategy, released in 2018, set high-level goals for using and handling data. Since then, agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD) have developed their own policies to implement those goals. This article appears in our guide, “ A Fresh Look at Data.” Linked: Connected to related elements.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 7, 2024

What’s really happening to the visitor is they’re starting to develop their own curatorial skills,” he says. “If If I go to a gallery or museum, somebody has selected everything for me. When I go to Artomatic , I’m making my own decisions.” In other words, stiffen your spine and take the plunge.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles. about the importance of CapitalOne Arena on the development of Downtown's East End. 1 venue in the world." Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). I argued it would have happened anyway. said "no, the Arena has had significant impact." I was too parochial.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

From the article: He has a history of floating false solutions to the drawbacks of our over-reliance on cars that stifle efforts to give people other options. Elon Musk said he came up with the hyperloop to diminish planning and funding for high speed rail in California (" Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 31, 2022

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. This trend discussed in a 2018 post by DFI colleague Frank Muraca: unc.live/37TJaQy. Corporate landlords in NC mapped by News & Observer.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Post has an article about how Virginia Congressman Don Beyer is getting a masters degree in machine learning so he can apply AI to government and creating better policy (" A 72-year-old congressman goes back to school, pursuing a degree in AI "). Positive deviance theory: Hope amidst failure.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

The review highlights how new research developments can facilitate a shift towards "upstream," or preventative, homelessness interventions, while making necessary "downstream" emergency services more equitable and effective. 2021 ; Gubits et al. Housing First, voucher-based, and supportive housing models offer more sustainable solutions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Private equity doesn't do stuff "out of goodness" but to make a profit, and quickly--often much faster than it is possible for a developing business to do. So I wasn't surprised to see some articles about the bankruptcy of Bird (Superpedestrian), the major player in the electric scooter space (" E-scooter companies are going bankrupt.

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Parks And Recreation Transportation Public Sector Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This is in response to this Washington Post article, " Purple Line study: Without help, light-rail line will bring gentrification." The second biggest thing I learned was the need for focused and effective implementation organizations.

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Housing Community Development Development Nonprofit 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

An article in the Philadelphia Inquire r makes the point that the "fashion" initiative had no legs because of white flight and a change in the industry in terms of fast fashion (" White flight and fast fashion meant Market Street never got the attention it deserved. billion arena in Center City "). Could the 76ers change that? ").

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

In March 2023, Management Information Systems Quarterly published an article highlighting how the Commonwealth of Virginia harnessed the power of data to save lives before, during, and after the pandemic. In August 2018, Governor Northam appointed him the chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2024

According to the Washington Informer article, " DC's new plan to slash its trash ," DC is adding ten years, one decade more, to its waste diversion goal, from 2030 to 2040 That's 16 years!!!!!!!!!! Why so long, so obtuse, about developing a yard waste diversion program? That's the major reason why DC lags so much.

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The Lowe Down

APRIL 28, 2023

Article by Noah Hendelman Recent research from economists like Richard Reeves has pointed to a concerning decline in men’s health and wellbeing. In 2018, more females graduated than males in every single county, as shown by the choropleth in figure 1. A one-unit increase represents a $1000 loss per worker to the China Shock.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. This article appears in our guide, “Agency of the Future: How New Possibilities are Emerging in the Present.” Agencies had their rules, and constituents had to navigate them to get the services they needed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

Mostly about urban universities, but the principles still apply to smaller towns. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown (..)

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Economic Development Education Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening. Flickr photo. The Washington Post reports (" D.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 -- " Update on DC's plans to build a new United Medical Center ," 2018 I argue that "a building" isn't enough, you have to have a plan to address health inequities in innovative and novel ways. Plan + program + building.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. We thank the commissioners for their service to our county.” Sometimes it is.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times. We live in divided, short-sighted times. Transformative projects like TransMilenio require long-term “cathedral thinking.”

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Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development 52

GovLoop

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Such a shortage makes it difficult for any organization to develop systems and processes to prevent cyberattacks, and to respond quickly and effectively when attacks happen. This article appears in our guide “ Bright Ideas for Making Cyber Stick.” Everyone else is a partner [in the process].” Get the guide.

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Local Government Government Relations Budgeting Security 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

charlie shares with us an article by Edwin Heathcote, the architecture columnist for the Financial Times , " Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work? an urban design dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. historic architecture 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. From the article : Metro rides are free after 5 p.m. Tuesday Officials suggest taking Metro to get to the Mall. Starting at 5 p.m.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

The Boston Globe has an interesting article, " Gentrification is washing over America’s wealthiest cities. The article has an interesting discussion about how this came about. Transforming a building. " Now and There " by Faith Ninivaggi , 555 Columbus Avenue, Uphams Corner neighborhood, Boston.

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Housing Economic Development Development Community Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

When I was doing research on public markets a few years ago, I came across a book called Civic Agriculture , about the development of local food systems centered upon small business. One of the interesting discussions within the book was how the prominent sociologist C. pharmacists worry ," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage. It's really hard when you're failing. It's worth a read.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Howard does have its bookstore on Georgia Avenue and they tried for a hotel and have worked on developing a town center there for a couple decades). Businesses developed out of university-based research. Faculty concentration as talent and an element of community development. 1 in 2021 ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2018, I wrote a piece about the attempt to extend the RFK campus lease, but at the behest of the "Washington" NFL team, which has been based in Suburban Prince George's County for a couple decades. -- " Yes, modify and extend the RFK Campus lease; No, don't do it for the Washington Redskins football team " The RFK campus is on the right.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.

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