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.

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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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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Incrementalism has been fruitfully applied to explain domestic policy making, foreign policy making, and public budgeting. Incrementalism emphasizes the plurality of actors involved in the policy-making process and predicts that policy makers will build on past policies, focusing on incremental rather than wholesale changes.

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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."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Gaps include: -- a failure to plan adequately at the three scales of the city: city-wide; sub-districts (areas, districts, or sectors); and neighborhoods ("small area plans" are not comprehensive neighborhood plans, but "build out opportunity analysis and management plans); -- no open and transparent public process for capital improvements planning (..)

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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. She did, for facade improvements in small towns, but didn't extend the concept to planning more generally.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

There's an article, " ‘Sticky’ places are urban planning lifelines Shared spaces build community and are key to alleviating America’s loneliness epidemic. They started this as a budget measure in the 1970s (now Harford County, Maryland does something similar too). Designing spaces to foster interaction.

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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. You could do a tradeoff in space (like Tribeca in the 1970s); I'd think about downtown if you can get me around 3000 SF in space.

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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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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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Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

In any case, such divisions are often artificial, with women in developing-world cities undertaking economic activity that has too often been ignored. -- " Female-Friendly Cities: Rethinking the Patriarchy of Urban Planning ," Ms. Gender budgeting. For the most part, links have not been checked. Women as planners and architects.

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