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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

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In another Medium post from 2019 , Graham MacDonald, Urban CIO, wrote, “Researchers should always choose the right programming language for the right job. The SEDT has processed more than 2,600 requests since Urban launched it in September 2020. Over the decades, Urban has used SAS and Stata and eventually adopted R.

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

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DCCF has a post, " Questions for Mayor Bowser's Public Safety Summit ," providing lots of questions to be asked of the public officials. . -- " Broken windows/collective efficacy: Baltimore; Newark; Grand Junction, Colorado; Pittsburgh; Albany " (2019) A lot of academics criticize it, but I think they are missing the point.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

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But they aren't organized into an overarching association, in a manner comparable to how Germany organizes regional transport associations to coordinate the planning and delivery of transit services. For example, this list of other organizations that deal with " Hard to Recyle " items in Salt Lake County lists more than 40 organizations.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

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In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). He went on to promulgate a law, the Coronavirus Act of March 2020, that is perhaps even more 'extreme', although mitigated by its incomprehensibility.

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Brightline West should also be used to transform public transit service in Las Vegas

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Obviously, because we don't have multi-state railroad planning in a coordinated fashion (" Two train/regional transit ideas: Part 1 | Amtrak should acquire Greyhound "), it's not like such questions are being asked. Ideally, Salt Lake to Las Vegas train service could be routed to the Brightline station on the Strip.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

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The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020). inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). It's about speed versus access.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.