Reprogramming the City

AUGUST 15, 2023

The process involves channeling the air through a series of reverse osmosis machines housed within the billboard. The Reprogramming the City book features 44 projects from 17 countries repurposing existing urban objects for new use. Dubbed the UTEC Water Billboard, this structure is designed to extract water from the humid air.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

I suppose there is a book out there, modelled after The Town that Food Saved , about the arts. From the first article: In collaboration with Drury University's Art of Space, led by assistant professor Gerard Nadeau, the museum is erecting the outdoor House of Art(s) on the northwest corner of the museum's grounds. Arts Initiative.

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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 private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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Let's Talk Parks

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

So our admin office house here, along with other recreation programs as well. We’re going to start a book club and our art club and all these different types of clubs in this community, but it wasn’t until I had some program failures that I realized that this wasn’t the right types of programs for this community.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 26, 2016

The real challenge we face is that every year, our operational costs go up 2 million dollars ($2,000,000) while the State imposed levy caps limit us to a half million dollars ($500,000) in new tax levy. That’s the size of Marathon County’s annual budget. So don’t let anybody tell you that the County is broke. We are FAR from broke.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2023

From the article: Meanwhile, from the 1950s through the 1970s, his hometown had undergone the same kind of “urban renewal” that happened across the country with the help of federal Housing and Urban Development and transportation grants. As long as the building remains, you can continue to tell the stories,” Howard says.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 5, 2021

The book is a powerful thesis from a significant thinker and practitioner that suggests a frame for thinking about AI that is profound, intelligent and disturbing. I’ve just finished the introduction to the book, which stands as an essay in its own right staking out the territory she intends to explore.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Because my job was exclusively teaching – I taught four sections of writing courses every fall and spring semester – I didn’t have much time to continue pursuing research or turning my dissertation into a book project, the usual next step in my field. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

Management 52

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

Cities cost money to operate. Similarly, a school in her neighborhood is closing and she suggests it become a library, even though it's a good site for multiunit housing, when the main library is just a few miles away. Community building versus revitalization. blocks from a light rail station.

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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. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Overhead covers general operating expenses like rent, utilities, and administrative expenses. First, if the grant writer is in-house, she’ll know your institution’s policies and procedures related to grant development. By not conducting a careful review, you could fail to spot places where you have actually under-budgeted line items.

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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. S o in those types of facilities, summer operations may go on as planned. But I do just want to say that there are facilities and agencies operating like that. They’re trying to do some things, but it’s just not back to normal operation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

In some respects, it's merely an extension of points (without the sociological criticism) made in the paper, " The City as an Entertainment Machine " (later expanded into a book), which extends Growth Machine arguments in terms of the post-industrial city and the shifting of focus on knowledge industries, leisure activities, and place qualities.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The change will cover all the different PSTN connectivity options in Microsoft Teams (Teams Calling Plan, Operator Connect and Direct Routing PSTN connectivity). Tenants can use the Graph API to integrate with 3rd party or in-house legal systems, holds databases, or review tools to automate workflows. Search > Purge data (preview).

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Grant Central USA

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We want to have some mode of operation. So you can learn grant writing by reading a book, but you're only getting to the 10 percentile. Watch the entirety of both those videos because there are some samples that they're going to show you that are in-house that's going to help you to be able to get funded.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Avoiding another CrowdStrike Traditional operating systems, such as Windows, have complex architectures that are susceptible to system-wide failures and rely heavily on software updates and patches from a whole suite of third-party companies that can, and have, introduced new issues.

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GovLoop

APRIL 4, 2023

To expound on that and meet new compliance requirements, GSA efforts began to dovetail with the White House Executive Order on cybersecurity from May 2021 and its emphasis on adopting security best practices, centered on a zero-trust security strategy. The agency found that expanded telecommuting options are a lure for skilled workers.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

Increases in housing density in the decade leading up to the study period (more units mean low-income people have a place to live even as higher-income people move into the neighborhood); and 8. The presence of community-building organizations (which can put up housing and strengthen social ties) Discussion. how about Waverly etc.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Many shifted to take out operations. Are there children in the house? Books on regional foodways/cookbooks. There are a number of books published that explore regional foodways and systems, and I think it would be cool to come in hand with a great book on regional foodways. Some were good at it, many sucked.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2024

authorities say that in the 1980s, he commanded a ruthless crack cocaine operation, raking in an estimated $2 million a week and fueling a deadly epidemic that plunged D.C. I joke that I wish that Elijah Anderson's books Streetwise and Code of the Street had been already published, so I could have been better prepared!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

Street Trees of Seattle is an interesting book. She chose to do this by drawing, and for the purposes of the book, she organized the content by neighborhood, focused on the primary type of tree "dominating" that particular neighborhood, although each section does list other significant trees that are also present.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," (2018) -- " Yes the neighborhood will change, but it will take 10-25 years ," (2018) -- " House flipping as reproduction of space ," (2018) -- " Q: Could a community land trust help solve D.C.s It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Homelessness concentrates in cities because there are more people, housing is more expensive, and people migrate to cities because they are more likely to offer social services. Readers have called our attention to the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem , which I haven't yet tracked down ("S," Seattle Times ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. Extend the building underground and up (maybe have to buy a couple houses) to put in an underground auditorium/space (perhaps on the C Street side) to replace but continue the arts functions of North Hall, and put in an underground pool.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It's a term popularized by Ray Oldenburg in a book of the same title. -- Third places” as community builders , Brookings A lot of the time they are commodified spaces, places where you have to spend money to participate. Silent book clubs. Is a thing (" Silent Book Club gains traction in the Pittsburgh region ," Pittsburgh Tribune ).

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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. Anthony has posted operating income nearly every year since.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

I don't think I was aware at the time of the Denver Scientific and Cultural Facilities District , which operates at a multicounty scale. That bill is before the House for final approval next week. And there are many examples of these kinds of taxing and/or operating districts across the U.S.,

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 16, 2021

The story of Okawa is movingly described in Richard Lloyd Parry's remarkable book Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan. A makeshift shrine was erected at the base of the three-storey emergency operations centre in Shizugawa. People who lost their homes had to live in transitional houses only 28.5

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