Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 10, 2024

We are not a disparate collection of books,: Today’s libraries function as vibrant community centers that contribute to the social, cultural, and educational fabric of our neighborhoods, enriching the lives of young and old. Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. The four biggest issues these days are: 1.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 10, 2024

One day a picnic table appeared outside Pembroke House, a community space in Walworth, south London. Mike Wilson, Pembroke House’s manager, tells me that shortly after the table arrived, things began to happen: “Dog walkers who had passed each other every day without speaking started to sit down at the table for a chat.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 26, 2016

That’s the size of Marathon County’s annual budget. This means that pretty much every year we start the budget process with a 1.5 In preparing the 2017 budget, we will aspire higher. The CPBB congratulates Marathon County on their excellent work in implementing priority based budgeting. We are FAR from broke.

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Super Library Marketing

AUGUST 5, 2024

“I went to a new concept charter school in downtown Winston Salem that was housed in the basement of an office building,” explains Megan. We even got to decorate our own cotton tote bags to use carting our book finds back and forth. The school didn’t have many amenities, like a gym or library.”

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. The two companies have no lobbyists or lobbying budget and make no political donations of any kind. the legislation establishing them).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Cashin made the case that whether in terms of 80-year-old residential segregation, urban renewal, or public housing, “cumulative policies” fuel inequality; both the government and the private sector have routinely over-invested in affluent white space and disinvested elsewhere.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 8, 2024

While park master plans tend to not reference built environment and landscape architectural history, the reality is that architectural historians do this kind of evaluation all the time, publish books and reports, etc. One of their most recent books is Boston's Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City.

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Let's Talk Parks

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Have you ever experienced: a limited budget? So our admin office house here, along with other recreation programs as well. And when developing quality programs, I think you have to take into consideration one what the objectives are, but what’s your budget for it? So in Columbus, we had a zero marketing budget.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What we ended up with was about the best we could hope for – I had a teaching-focused position at a big state university and my partner had a lecturer position at a small liberal arts college about an hour away that would very likely turn into a tenure-track position once the school got its budget in order. It was the house.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

There’s been books written about it. There’s an initiative called the National Collaborative for Digital Equity that has started a campaign called One Percent for Digital Equity, and the call is to ask CRA officers to commit one percent of their CRA budget to digital equity.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. ," Bloomberg). And there is no oversight.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 24, 2024

Sugar House Park is almost 70 years old, and has different planning needs compared to when the park was created. Many of the "natural features" in Sugar House Park are specified in the post on climate change, " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change." For example, the Cultural Landscape report ( vol.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Unlike the local and state jurisdictions that fund Metro, federal money goes only to the agency’s capital budget but not to its separate operating budget — a distinction local officials have long said is inequitable. Good luck with that. The director then, Mark R. It's worth a read. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)

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Let's Talk Parks

MARCH 2, 2022

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. The park district only receives about 5% of the community’s tax dollars, and the rest of a very small portion of our budget is tax funded. I might have a book discussion or a historical discussion, and I’ve got the whole room set up.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 15, 2023

Digital makes for a seamless and easy experience In the foreword to the ‘Transforming for a digital future’ policy paper , Heather Wheeler MP said, “When people order their groceries, book a holiday or check their bank accounts, they expect and receive a seamless and easy experience.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. I found this bookmark, promoting volunteering in the schools, in a book at a Library book sale. Special Funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Participatory Budgeting initiatives. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Benjamin is a licensed attorney, with nearly twenty years of experience with complex civil and criminal litigation and as in-house GovTech counsel. Charlotte strives to stay involved in modernization initiatives for the House of Representatives, where she feels technology can strengthen democracy.

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Grant Central USA

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You, in essence, are budgeting your time. Also, you must budget your time to ensure that you are able to gather all of the required documents before the deadline. Also, you'll notice another very important section is the budget. So you can learn grant writing by reading a book, but you're only getting to the 10 percentile.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

The Friends of the Salt Lake City Library, which covers all of the libraries in the city, is particularly good (" Outdoor library book sale as an opportunity for "social bridging"/triangulation "). Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House. This week: How about volunteering in something?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 19, 2016

"Some recommended updates to the strategic plan include revising prioritized strategic goal ranking, adding outcome statements for strategic goals, and integration of priority-based budgeting references." Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, is leading the way in priority based business planning and budgeting. We have our rural public.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 1, 2017

Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director made the same point. These have been issues on progressive policy agendas for a long time — and the former for the hardly progressive House Speaker Ryan. And one devoutly hopes someone else in the White House. And not only they.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Now the Intermodal Center just houses intercity bus services. -- Rio Grande Plan The plan proposes a tunnel to redirect the railroad passenger services back to the station, as well as a rerouting of the Trax Green Line, with railroad service in a tunnel behind the station and light rail service in front of the station.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

One of the most important books I read in the late 1980s, pre-Internet, was Maximarketing. Another good book was the Marketing Imagination. And cities have limited budgets and many priorities. And I have to temper my thinking about this too. Its basic point was that you have to focus on all channels, not just some, selectively.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

A few years ago when I was doing research on public markets I came across the book Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food and Community , which posits a more locally controlled and democratically involved regional food system, as opposed to the one we have, dominated by huge corporations. It's an interesting book.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Shirky’s “Promise, Tool, Bargain” states that “each success story of using social tools to form groups contained within the book is an example of the complex fusion of ‘a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain with the users” (2008, p. We can easily connect this model to Olson’s collective action theory.

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