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Decoding Subnational Climate Budgeting in Maharashtra, India

The City Fix

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Planners are tasked with considering the future and dealing with it, not trying to prevent change necessarily, but instead working to manage it and mitigate and limit negative effects, in ways that are good for the city in general and neighborhoods specifically, simultaneously. At the same time, there is a different cleavage.

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Building Civic Trust Through Civic Tech

GovLoop

It can include applications such as community platforms that connect constituents to services and resources, open data initiatives and participatory budgeting tools. A new term to some, “civic tech” relates to technology that directly facilitates CX, constituent experience or communication.

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The 50 Best City Manager Blogs, Sites, and More

Masters in Public Administration

A city manager is often charged with managing the city’s budget, various offices, and a ton of other responsibilities. To help learn more about what a city manager does, we have gathered the 50 best city manager blogs, sites, and more. Best West City Manager Blogs. Best East City Manager Blogs.

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Designing spaces (sticky spaces) for use, flexibility: park benches, picnic tables

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

See the Boston Globe article, " 'Sticky' places are urban planning lifelines." 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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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

22 years ago, with the election of Anthony Williams as mayor of DC, there was a reinvigoration of the urban planning function in the city. The first big initiative was to do "neighborhood plans" for each neighborhood area. We invite them to use other means of transport, there are alternatives.” And my neighborhood was the first.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.