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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House. Ward Democracy Houses should also include at least one annual "community organization fair" which could also serve as a volunteer recruitment event. This week: How about volunteering in something? Funds for small projects.

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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

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Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. Public Library is getting into book publishing. Why it makes total sense ," Los Angeles Times ) and Hugo House, a nonprofit in Seattle focused on literary arts is in financial distress (" Seattle’s Hugo House faces uncertain future ," Seattle Times ).

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Toronto Star "Can't We Do Better" series: Rampant Municipal Management Failure #3

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence " -- " Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority) " The Toronto Star is running a series of articles in advance of the Mayor and City Council election this, Monday October 24th, called " Can't We Do Better? "

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Times Square Alliance Streetwatch program for reporting problems in the public space

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

He is incredibly prolific and a careful observer and documenter of the public space, and is especially active in DC, Baltimore, and New York City. Community First was developed during the pandemic, when NYC closed congregate housing for the unhoused, and moved them to hotels with single rooms. More about this later.)

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face. One of his campaigns was a bus boycott in response to a fare increase (" Marion Barry Leads Bus Boycott ," WETA/PBS). Urban design and minority communities.

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Public Administration Under Trump: An Age of Institutional Decline? By Don Moynihan

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

But the Presidential campaign also told us much about the degree to which institutions depend greatly on informal norms. Many, like the candidate they represent, have held neither public office nor have any public experience, and hold records that would have been disqualifying in previous administrations.