Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Both this entry and the previous one on White's Ferry ("R evisiting the need for comprehensive transportation planning at the metropolitan and regional scales | For profit services, and White's Ferry, Montgomery and Loudoun Counties ") involve protest and advocacy as a way to get better policy outcomes.

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The Whistle Post

JANUARY 15, 2022

Career Support Services such as: Assistance with childcare and transportation while enrolling in training. Among other things, they (1) serve as liaisons between community members and health care and social service providers and (2) provide a range of services, including outreach, advocacy, and care coordination. Sample occupations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

That's because with the way we've designed the transportation system for automobility, you can get away with minimal pre-planning, unless you're going to an out of the way place. MPOs and "active transportation." And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

Cycletrack and sidewalk, Virginia Avenue SE, Capitol Hill, Washington DC As great new infrastructure is added, we need to redouble our efforts to actually shift people to cycling (I submitted thousands of words about this to the planning process for the Salt Lake City Master Transportation Plan.) So we need to address both. But most don't.

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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. There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

3, 2023, during the 22nd Bike the Drive, an annual event hosted by Active Transportation Alliance that closes the roadway to vehicles from Bryn Mawr to 57th Street for the morning. Bicyclists enjoy the ride on North DuSable Lake Shore Drive through Lincoln Park on Sept.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But, whether it’s supply-chain issues, energy policies or changes in transportation, many are scrambling to recover lost time on overdue consultations. Run a community advocacy program . Our tip: engage early to foster co-creation and trust with a public now acutely aware of their right to have their say. .

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

Featured officials shared their experiences working in the White House, and in the departments of Transportation and Commerce as they helped to implement the American Rescue Plan Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act. The post That’s so major!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 26, 2023

Philadelphia's Design Advocacy Group, uniting more than 2,000 professional architects, designers, and planners, has come out against the proposal too, because it argues it will have a deadening effect on Market Street at the ground level (" A large Philly-based group of architects and designers just came out against the 76ers’ arena plan ," PI ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Casey Anderson, the chair, was someone I met through bike advocacy, and in 2010, as a member of the Planning Board, he invited me to present on " best practice suburban bicycle planning " at the Montgomery County Planning smart growth series, based on the work I was doing at the time in Baltimore County.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In a groundbreaking move for national road safety policy, Mexico has elevated to their constitution a universal right to safe mobility. On October 14, the country’s Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted in favor of adding an amendment to Mexico’s constitution: Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. The idea is that intra-district transportation, especially by SFH residents, could be shifted to shuttles rather than by car. Go to the grocery store, bring back your purchases, without driving.

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The City Fix

APRIL 26, 2023

In late March 2023, #BiciBús activists from Barcelona hosted fellow “bike bus” leaders from around the world for the first-ever global Bike Bus Summit. Since 2021, the bike bus movement has exploded. Bike buses are groups of children and parents.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 10, 2023

When I went to college there was a book "famous" in economics called Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics , about the manipulation of data. In reporting on transit ridership, I am bothered when they don't report ridership by bus line or day of the week, but "by the year."

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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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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Alzheimer’s, veterans, or energy) you may want to look for funding opportunities sponsored by foundations and advocacy organizations associated with these issues. Lastly, if your research area relates to a specific disease, population, or industry (e.g., What kinds of things should be part of your review?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Nevertheless, the advocacy I have found with respect to MH demonstrates some confusion regarding this fundamental. I found additional advocacy approaches designed to support a claim that MH structures will appreciate much like site-built structure-plus-land housing. 10] See the article from September 2018 - [link]. [11] ” Page 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Pedestrian advocacy organizations like Feet First in Seattle have provided a great deal of support to Walk to School efforts. Interestingly, the Tacoma Washington SRTS program adds "Engagement" to the traditional 5/6 E's framework for bike and pedestrian planning. Nationally, the Safe Routes to School Partnership is the primary resource.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

Fire, flood, extremes of heat and cold, tempests, tornadoes, bombings, shootings, structural collapses, chronic contamination, infrastructure failure and transportation crashes are all features of recent British history and, where such events have had a profound impact, they deserve to be called disasters, and treated as such. 1] Domoto, A.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Via automated feeds, the data is transported directly into the cloud-based database and stored securely. AWS is applying expertise in secure semi-federated clinical data ingestion to develop standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) to do this. I’m so hopeful in the power of what AWS and CBTN can achieve.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Two of the most important books related to transportation in terms of community planning are Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living With Less Traffic by David Engwicht and Cities in Full by Steve Belmont. This is the basis of the concept of "transportation demand management." He also discusses this in terms of "exchange."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Seattle's Feet First advocacy group is a great resource for such programs. I prepared a sample data-focused infographic that could be a kind of dashboard for ward-specific transportation as part of my interview. ANCs need transportation/traffic safety committees. It has since been significantly improved. And public health.

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 13, 2025

Other top employers of veterans by percentage include the Department of Transportation (34.6% As the veterans advocacy group Veterans of Foreign Wars suggested in its recent call to pause the mass firing of probationary federal employees, There are bigger ramifications in firing veterans than just faceless workers being let go.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 12, 2017

Agencies may further support living at home by providing hands-on help with tasks like meal preparation, light housework and transportation. But broad-based research and advocacy organizations—and the rest of us interested parties—need be less focused on this one hot issue, when there are already many others. Here’s a true win-win.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 12, 2025

Early in my days of pro center city advocacy, I was somewhat troubled about how advocates jumped on the ideas of Hans Monderman and the woonerf or shared street, streets designed to mix motor vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists, as a way to slow traffic and better balance mobility between the car and non motorized forms.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Admittedly, many transportation agencies are investing a lot in urban design, livable streets, sustainable mobility, etc. A big issue is that transportation agencies (and government agencies more generally), even very good ones like NYCDOT, aren't always that proactive, and tend to not have "a sense of urgency" when it comes to action.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 31, 2025

It transports you, teaches you, and inspires you. Feature library services that center on safety and comfort Promote meeting spaces, quiet study areas, free Wi-Fi, literacy programs, or social services partnerships that help patrons feel secure and supported.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I joke that I didn't start understanding patience within community organizing until my 40s, when I realized a "fast tracked" transportation project takes 10 years. Plus to be fair to elected officials even in the best circumstances change takes a long time. But one thing I didn't figure on. the County Executive gets to appoint the chair.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The following can all produce embodied carbon emissions: The extraction of raw materials • The manufacturing and refinement of materials • Transportation • Installation and disposal of construction materials as well as old supplies. Embodied carbon refers to the quantity of carbon emitted during the erection of a building.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Photo: Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle The battles over transportation access were central to the Civil Rights movement. Transit Equity Day , set by the American Public Transportation Association as February 4th , during African American/Black History Month, is one way to acknowledge this. 9, in Houston.

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