GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Broken Windows theory (" Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety ," Atlantic Magazine , 1982) posits that communities where there are vacant buildings, litter, abandoned cars etc. Our Council member, Kenyatta Johnson, is now also Council president, and he has enormous power to protect affordable housing in his district and beyond.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Note that before the book, there was an article in Fortune Magazine , " Downtown is for people " ( pdf ). I actually have the original magazine--from an estate sale in Bethesda, found by Suzanne, not me, but it's in DC. Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

FWIW, Allegheny Hospital in particular is a best practice example in their support of local community development corporations, providing grants to staff towards housing purchases near the hospital, which extends to West Penn in Bloomfield, etc. 5, signaling a new era of healthcare ," Cleveland Plain Dealer ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. Plan for time of day and day of the week sure. But plan for four seasons of activity, depending on the park and its location.

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Parks And Recreation Press Release Strategic Planning Engagement 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

After all, that's how it's done in Paris (" Why Paris Works ," New York Times Magazine , 1992). E.g., DC paid to repave the street behind our house, while knowing that Pepco was scheduled to tear up for re-laying of transmission lines, but because the money was allocated they went ahead.)

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