Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 9, 2023

-- " Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution " From the article: Paris will hold a referendum on 4 February asking residents to vote for or against a specific parking tariff for heavy, large and polluting SUVs. And my neighborhood was the first.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

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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Librarian.net

JANUARY 27, 2022

There were some Round Table readjustments which were mostly paperwork-driven and seemed non-controversial but required voting. We did not get to vote on the Resolution to Support School and Youth Services Librarians Facing Increased Intellectual Freedom Challenges because of time spent discussing TAG which was too bad.

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zencity

MAY 3, 2023

His principal management responsibility included oversight of the City’s employees and a multi-billion dollar budget. Few things could be more exciting for us, or represent a higher vote of confidence in Zencity’s mission and future, than Maurice’s growth from a customer, to an advisor, and now to our COO.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Solidification of Hybrid Engagement Staged Engagement Community Development and Going Beyond the Project Participatory Budgeting The Initial Adoption of AI in Community Engagement 1. Now a popular tool, Fund It is certainly seeing more use in local government budgeting processes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition.

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

Read them to learn how a city budget works, how townhall meetings are conducted, and even to see the inner workings of a police department. Top City Government Manager Blogs. City managers are often charged with the day to day tasks of running a city and can be read more about in the below blogs. Ventura City Manager.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

In 2022, the city reduced the street mph to 20mph for most neighborhood streets, which in a car oriented city, is at times controversial (" Salt Lake City Council lowers speed limit to 20 mph on 70% of city streets in unanimous vote ," " Salt Lake City swaps first 20 mph speed limit sign in initiative for safer streets ," Salt Lake Tribune ).

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

A local government therefore must exercise oversight of the budgets for construction and operation of the housing project to ensure that the public subsidy is going to LMI persons and not toward other activities of the third party. 153A-149, unless the same is first submitted to a vote of the people as therein provided.”

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Masters in Public Administration

JUNE 13, 2011

Plato recognizes the separation between management and develops the concept of democracy. In modern voting, this process is often called the political machine and is now done in a less blatant way. Taylor is dubbed the “father of scientific management.” 1883 The Pendleton Act is created and slows down the spoils system.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Professional government employees are vital partners for these officials and do [or should do] the day-to-day operations of the government, procure products and services, supervise, develop budgets for programs and execute tactics outlined in strategy put forth in part by our elected officials. Manager relations. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1988.tb00060.x.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This is an issue in the UK, because 10+ years of austerity have crush public agencies and local governments--some have lost as much as 2/3 of their budget, at the cost of public libraries, health care, maintenance of streets, sidewalks, parks, etc. Transit fare evasion in DC (and elsewhere).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. A couple years later I helped Brookland create one, and later served as a program manager in Brookland.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

At the same time, traditional political movements—those linked to candidates or issue campaigns—have responded to opportunities presented by the new media environment by becoming hybrid organizations, centrally managed but enabling a relatively entrepreneurial base (Bimber, Flannagan, & Stohl, 2005).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. Gender budgeting. When a city feels safe enough that a woman jogs along, alone, at dusk. somebody is doing something right."

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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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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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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The Office of Personnel Management has been missing an official deputy director for nearly two years. The nominee for the Office of Management and Budget controller, Laurel Blatchford, recently withdrew from consideration, after waiting more than 10 months without a Senate confirmation vote.

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 8, 2017

I recently said I was torn between delving into Trump’s proposed budget and picking at less-reported angles because the package was DOA in the Senate. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says no such thing. We’re still a long way from a budget for next year.

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