Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 6, 2022

problem with Blogger -- He has a pro-public space, pro sustainable mobility based campaign. From 1995 to 1998 he served as parks commissioner of Bogota, where he led the development of more than 200 public parks, and helped expand the city’s Ciclovía car-free streets program into an event that’s since been emulated around the world.

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Let's Talk Parks

AUGUST 22, 2021

While I’m a certified park nerd (trademark pending), I wouldn’t recommend learning code for developing your intranet. The key is to find a method that is sustainable over the long term – meaning it is easy to update and make changes. It makes updating your policies a total pain – take it from my experience.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit.

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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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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

For example, particularly in many developing countries, organizations that deliver direct services and depend on grants and donations to survive frequently have “foundation” as part of their names to indicate that they are charitable enterprises. your sustainability plan). 3: My Organization Needs a Grant.

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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. I talked about "the back story" of how I was approaching this from my perspective as an urban person committed to smart growth and sustainable mobility, and the lessons I had been learning.

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Grant Central USA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Why is grant writing crucial for nonprofit organizations' sustainability and growth? Grant writing is indispensable for the sustainability and growth of nonprofit organizations. In summary, grant writing is the lifeblood of nonprofit sustainability and growth.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

“This is a great opportunity for our team of resident leaders to learn from other communities and experts, to bring good ideas home to Syracuse, and to work with neighbors to develop a project that will beautify and engage the community.”. The Syracuse fellows are: Patrona Jones?Rowser

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat. The state has the Jordan River Commission , and the advocacy group, the Seven Canyons Trust , works on creek daylighting issues throughout the County. national parks are trying to go carbon-free. national parks are trying to go carbon-free.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 26, 2021

Where, I keep wondering, is the same energy, enthusiasm and fashionable fascination with “mission” reforms in science, technology and manufacturing that might be directed at remaking, for example, a health and care system with the same vigour, advocacy and resourcing?

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Librarian.net

JULY 10, 2021

link] americanlibrariesmagazine.org/ blogs/the-scoop/council-ii- restructuring-and- sustainability/. SustainRT (Sustainability Round Table) produced a really well-written and presented resolution about making ALA more sustainable in terms of climate change, carbon neutrality and encouraging all parts of ALA to pursue these goals.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As the number of students we taught rose and tenure-track faculty left, they were replaced with wonderful, intelligent, highly-trained contingent faculty with heavy teaching loads, by-the-course or one-year contracts, and little to no support for equipment, materials, or professional development. That took over my life for the semester.

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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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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Jacaranda Health , a Kenya-based nonprofit organization, is on a mission to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths by deploying low-cost, sustainable solutions that improve the quality of care in government health systems. How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The City of San Francisco adopted a "transit first" development policy in 1973. For the most part this means that new development in the downtown core has been built without parking, but with access to efficient transit. Failures in execution make transit development and expansion that much harder.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies. Specifically, it is a non-lending unit of the U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In reality, it’s likely a mix of factors, including more speeding, heavier vehicles, dense development concentrated around multilane roads, and a decrease in traffic enforcement. In Washington, 75% of deadly crashes in 2022 involved one or more of the “fatal four”: impairment, distraction, speeding, and not wearing seat belts.

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A Library Writer's Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But how do we define, cultivate, and sustain positive and healthy work environments, particularly in libraries which can be under-resourced, unappreciated or devalued, or even toxic? ALAO seeks chapter submissions for a volume entitled Building and Sustaining Positive and Healthy Work Environments.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Harris predicts partnering and cooperation will grow in the coming year: “There will be more regional collaboration and engagement with communities and stakeholders within a community on sustainability initiatives. Harris says inclusion and equity are being prioritized within sustainability topics as the New Year approaches.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 1, 2025

Over the years, originally inspired by a "what you can do" list by Preservation Action Council of San Jose , I've developed a four-part series on what people can do to "celebrate" National Preservation Month. Preservation Action is a 501(c)4 advocacy group that advocates for specific legislation and is also a membership group.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

In fact, light rail here in Salt Lake was spurred by the 2002 Olympics, it's a small system and doesn't go to all the places it should, but it's complemented by a developing commuter rail program, a dinky streetcar line on the south side of Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, and a decent enough bus system.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Also see Labor Network for Sustainability. She was a leading member of the area transit advocacy group, LINK Houston. But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face. Trump Administration derides equity as an analytical construct. Other urban renewal initiatives didn't help.

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