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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes. NYC sponsors(ed?)

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The state has the Jordan River Commission , and the advocacy group, the Seven Canyons Trust , works on creek daylighting issues throughout the County. Plus, most state and local sites don't do a very good job of putting their documents online to begin with One of my ideas is to develop an online database of such historical documents.

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Community Planning Month and transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I collect ephemera--gas station maps, postcards, ads, magazine articles, illustrating mobility patterns from the different eras.) The City of San Francisco adopted a "transit first" development policy in 1973. Failures in execution make transit development and expansion that much harder. Transit First Policy, San Francisco.

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WHEN IT COMES TO DATA, CONTEXT IS KING

Barrett & Greene

Sometimes, it’s in the interest of a reporter or an advocacy group to avoid looking further than a single digit and use it as representative of a full story. “If We developed a deep understanding of this in the years that preceded our work on the Government Performance Project.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Parks agencies can engage citizens as programming providers, community experts, and volunteers, by creating parks and recreation committees and systems for developing and offering program for each facility. The latter conference includes advocacy activities, while Park Pride focuses on technical training. Whyte and "triangulation."