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Better Parking Management Can Help Cities Recover from COVID and Achieve Public Policy Goals

The City Fix

In some ways, cities are like households: they must make adjustments in spending based on cash flow. If your income is cut in half, then you may have to dramatically rethink your standard of living. COVID-19 has hit many households. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. If the budget didn't match the network breadth and depth requirements, rather than cut service, first the transit operators should make their case for more money.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. Funders have different budgets, funding priorities, and missions. Understanding Proposal Budgets When you search for potential funders, it is beneficial to have a sense of how much your project will cost.

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Better Communications Tops Data To-Do List

GovLoop

The institute, which is based at the University of Utah, provides state and local leaders with economic, demographic and public policy research. Their research supports policy development around a wide array of issues, from transportation, energy and natural resources to education and housing.

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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

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. Arguably this could be an element of the transportation post. This entry became very long, so I broke it up.

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Chicago sports stadium funding request, therefore Crain's Chicago Business runs special section

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

My biggest problem with it is the failure to get a transportation demand management program focused on getting people to the games by transit. As a public policy position, we’ve taken the position that we will invest and give public taxpayer dollars to men’s teams, but we’ve never done the same for women’s teams,” Leetzow says.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

Collaborating with the Florida League of Cities (FLC), we endeavored to provide a simple and practical revenue forecasting strategy to help cities in Florida plan and prepare for the potential impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic on their budgets. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.