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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Note that I like Harriet Tregoning a lot, and I love to talk about planning with her, but at the same time I try to be objective and analytical. Planning as boundary spanning and serving multiple masters. The result is policy and planning principles that will inform development, creating design that fits the character of the community.

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Decoding Subnational Climate Budgeting in Maharashtra, India

The City Fix

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently launched Mumbai’s first-ever climate budget, making it the first city in India and the fourth in the world (after Oslo, New York and London) to launch a climate budget. While Mumbai works to expand and institutionalize their.

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Citi Logik helps governments drive action on transportation insights with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Citi Logik provides their customers, including the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Wiltshire County Council, with valuable insights to help them make informed decisions about future transportation planning and urban planning development. They analyse over 150 million journeys in the UK every single day using MND.

Transportation

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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

It highlights the importance of trust-building in community development. By 2025, governments are expecting to continue developing strategies to remove these barriers. For instance, this could include helping people visualise projects that includes urban planning and new playgrounds.

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He said that incremental project development is much more likely than the creation and implementation of big projects based on a formal rational decision making process. From Encyclopedia Brittanica : Incrementalism was first developed in the 1950s by the American political scientist Charles E.

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Public Administration Development Government Elected Officials

National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s good business' " One of the many regrets I have is not getting a PhD in planning. My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues.

Parks And Recreation

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

Transportation

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Paris’ Vision for a ’15-Minute City’ Sparks a Global Movement

The City Fix

JANUARY 26, 2023

Until just a few years ago, the right riverbank of the Seine in Paris was an urban highway used by over 40,000 vehicles every day. Despite being named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the road was either heavily gridlocked during rush.

Urban Planning

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The 50 Best City Manager Blogs, Sites, and More

Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

A city manager is often charged with managing the city’s budget, various offices, and a ton of other responsibilities. News, updates, and future plans are often the topics of posts. Steve also has two master’s degrees in urban planning and economics. It is the site for the Budget Office of Seattle, Washington.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

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. But often planning engagements are constrained in terms of knowledge development and the ability to truly participate.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Engagement Urban Planning Campaign

The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. This reminds me that when Toronto did an urban grayfield development project in the 1970s, creating the St.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

From " Designing urban parks that ameliorate the effects of climate change ," Landscape and Urban Planning : During heat waves now and in the future urban microclimates put human health at risk. It turns out over 80% of the park's budget is spent on utilities including "culinary water." for interpretation.

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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the special interest sections of the American Planning Association is Planning and Women and the Women's Transportation Seminar is a professional development organization for women working in the transportation field. Women and the history of the planning profession. Gender budgeting. 3, Supplement.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

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.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

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.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Decoding Subnational Climate Budgeting in Maharashtra, India

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Citi Logik helps governments drive action on transportation insights with AWS

Community Engagement Trends for 2025

Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Paris’ Vision for a ’15-Minute City’ Sparks a Global Movement

The 50 Best City Manager Blogs, Sites, and More

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

The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

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

Women's History Month and urban planning

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

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