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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

Social Pinpoint

This is apparent especially for those who may face mobility or transportation challenges. The Department of Infrastructure and Transport in South Australia has added a VR experience to its events. This is a recent development for future transport projects in the State.

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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " 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. We invite them to use other means of transport, there are alternatives.”

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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

Even though the Office of Planning made a reasonable proposal which would only increase height by 25% (I think it could have been higher), the City Council did not vote in favor of considering a change.

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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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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park. Across the board, implementation is dependent on future funding, which Larsen said was requested in this year’s capital improvement budget.

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House Majority Denies Low-Income Seniors and People With Disabilies Choice of Living in Their Homes

Poverty & Policy

Agencies may further support living at home by providing hands-on help with tasks like meal preparation, light housework and transportation. They can also get equipment to assist them and training on how to use it. Here’s a true win-win. We all, I suppose want to stay in our homes, assuming they’re safe and in relatively good repair.

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Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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).