Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Campaigns, especially focused on workers and the multiunit buildings, are in order. Photo: Leah Hogsten, Salt Lake Tribune. Above: Multiplicity bus.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Road Witch was a campaign in England 20+ years ago, focusing on rebalancing the use to streets toward residents, not automobiles. See Fighting Traffic:The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And this is increasingly important as our country becomes more polarized, and even outside of this, people are very quick to criticize elected officials and government processes as uniformly corrupt, etc. Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House. Funds for small projects.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

When Republican George Allen wanted to impose new education standards in the 1990s and had a Democratic legislature, he said, the governor appointed prominent Virginia educators to key administration roles and mounted a campaign around the state to build support from lawmakers and local officials — all before any votes were taken.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

system seem designed to constrain elected officials who do not respect them. But the Presidential campaign also told us much about the degree to which institutions depend greatly on informal norms. prides itself on a reverence to the constitution, and on being “a government of laws, not of men,” in the words of John Adams.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It's nice to see Democrats pick up the State House in Virginia and keep the Senate. A Republican won the governorship in 2021 and that was a shock although Ralph Youngkin ran a better campaign than former Governor Terry McAuliffe along with lower Democratic turnout. The election results seem to reduce that likelihood significantly.

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