Public Sector Future

MARCH 31, 2022

In this episode we speak with Stefania Giannini, who was appointed UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education in 2018, becoming the top UN official in the field. Discover her goals for inclusion and sustainable development in education. Click here for transcript of this episode. microsoft/podcasts

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Public Sector Future

MARCH 31, 2022

In this episode we speak with Stefania Giannini, who was appointed UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education in 2018, becoming the top UN official in the field. Discover her goals for inclusion and sustainable development in education. Click here for transcript of this episode. microsoft/podcasts

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, these applications will not operate smoothly unless IoT-based strategies for developing smart cities have a database as their foundation. Environmental controls and sustainability: IoT sensors can assist in maximising energy efficiency, monitoring pollution levels, traffic control, and sustainable resources.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. 3 (2018): 489-530.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2024

From the article: The Sustainable DC Plan, which came out in 2013, said the District should begin diverting 80% of its waste away from landfills and incinerators by 2032. Why so long, so obtuse, about developing a yard waste diversion program? It's important, but hard to do at scale when you only focus on food waste.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 22, 2023

Also see: -- " Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework ," 2018 There's been a lot of reporting of late on communities reducing parking requirements, and a new book by Henry Grabar (" Book Review: 'Paved Paradise,' by Henry Grabar ," New York Times). Most trips aren't capturable by sustainable modes.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s easy to picture emissions from a factory or car but much less intuitive when it comes to someone developing software on their laptop. Kubernetes could play a significant role in alleviating this because while it’s not specifically designed to be a ‘sustainability tool’, it is designed to manage and avoid hardware redundancies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The term "greenwashing" is used to refer to organizations that announce sustainability initiatives as a way to detract from their generally poor practices. Photo: Steve Griffin, Deseret News So a development or two here and there, using nonsprawl principles, doesn't make any difference. It's 700 acres. A tad over one square mile.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The advantage of promoting biking to college students is that they are "impressionable" and it's a good time to develop sustainable behaviors as routine (" College towns of a certain size as an opportunity for sustainable mobility nirvana ," 2018).

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Developing a grant strategy involves identifying the funders and funding opportunities you intend to pursue over a certain period of time (usually a 12-month period, although it could be longer). We first wrote on the topic of preparing a grant strategy back in 2018 in a post entitled " Creating a Grant Strategy for 2018.

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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 My problem with it is that they focus on the temporary, while to build an arts as production ecosystem, you need sustained efforts. If I go to a gallery or museum, somebody has selected everything for me.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

There's been a freeway deck in Oak Park, Michigan over I-696 for almost 30 years ," 2018 There would be a lot more throughput for mass transit underground in Las Vegas, rather than his car-based "solution." The capacity for cars is less than 2,000 people per hour per lane, for a shuttle 6,000, for rail more than that.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Plus, I announced new initiatives from AWS to support nonprofits in developing innovative solutions and scaling their impact with technology. Since the program’s inception in 2018, AWS has awarded grants to 66 nonprofit organizations with missions ranging from food security and housing, to maternal healthcare and social justice.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 2, 2023

The workbook provides users with a flexible process to consider climate change information and to develop climate adaptation management plans that align with current land management objectives. Each state plan includes a summary and links to the plan and related documents.  What’s working and what’s not?

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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. Housing First, voucher-based, and supportive housing models offer more sustainable solutions. Root Causes.

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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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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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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Prior to joining DCDPR in 2018, Delano was the Chief Service Officer for Serve DC, a D.C. government agency dedicated to promoting service as an innovative, sustainable solution to pressing social challenges. Before that, he helped develop a mentoring program at Nike.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

Stabilisation was due to give way to peacekeeping and development when the earthquake struck the country and abruptly reversed the gains achieved. [i] Shelter may be 'innovative' or 'inspiring' to an architect from a highly developed country, but it could equally be detestable and impractical to the potential user. iii] Abrahams, D.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. It is a role that is seldom sustained enough to make a thorough-going difference.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I think that parks, libraries, sustainable mobility programs, and other civic assets are potential touchpoints for civic engagement and participation. The city developed a capacity building and training infrastructure to support it, after they realized the average community group didn't have the capacity to do it on their own.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

From a PI blog entry in 2015 : The Navy Yard development is home to GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Outfitters, a Marriott and about 140 other companies. Another two million square feet is slated to be developed and the previous feasibility study estimated about 8,000 people would use rail service by 2045. About 13,000 people work there.

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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. But I guess they don't have a set of basic standards about what a regional bikeway network should look like and how it should be implemented.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The article discusses how the Regional Transit Service in Rochester New York developed "partnership" funding agreements with schools, colleges, and businesses to provide financial support beyond farebox revenue, to support mutual agreed upon objectives. It's worth a read. historic architecture 2.

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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. Lots of cool more public good type "businesses" have been destroyed by private equity seeking a quick return or to cash out. Isla Vista, California.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Public facing civic assets--libraries, parks, schools, sustainable mobility programs like walking, biking, and transit, Safe Routes to School, public markets, farmers markets, etc.--should The goal is to ensure a sustainable community for future generations through participation in democratic processes. Whyte and "triangulation."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

Riffing off of " Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando ," that entry mentioned that Brightline is developing a similar railroad service between "Los Angeles" and Las Vegas, called Brightline West. People lining up for The Deuce. Transit in Las Vegas Bus.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. The revenue structure varies greatly among 411 municipalities.

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The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 28, 2024

E-bikes are even making the self-preserving leap to status symbol, with Lamborghini and Maserati producing fancy models, and Porsche developing bike motors, batteries and software. This old piece outlines a hierarchy of mobility: -- " Further Updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform ," 2018 And I miss Car2Go ("S"

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Baptist Health South Florida is developing a patient cohort-retrieval application using advanced technologies, including generative AI and information retrieval techniques. The Lieber Institute for Brain Development is using generative AI to design new medications for complex disorders such as schizophrenia.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

My work in Baltimore County also led to the development of my "Signature Streets" concept, as a way of unifying thinking about streets, mobility, and aesthetics, not just in counties but in cities too. By focusing on key concepts that "I've developed" here's a list. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic. That's not the case.

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