The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

City officials tasked with reducing and eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from their communities face a tricky task in estimating building emissions as they work to prevent the most harmful impacts of climate change. The biggest challenge is that there isn’t consensus.

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The City Fix

JUNE 15, 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), composed of hundreds of the world’s leading scientists, puts considerable weight on urban climate action in developing pathways towards sustainable futures. The 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC recognizes that urban areas present. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Vacant lots are often viewed as pieces within larger systems, such as urban planning or community development, or overlooked entirely. Redefining vacant land as a system also highlights the importance of engaging stakeholders in achieving community development goals.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Events DC is a DC government instrumentality. -- board of directors -- staff Technically it's independent of the city government, but its top officer and board members are appointed by the Mayor and City Council. When the government owns the facility, TDM agreements need to be part of the lease with the tenant--the sports team.

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The City Fix

JULY 11, 2022

Municipalities depend on higher levels of government. To achieve more equitable, resilient, low-carbon societies, cities need big changes to critical infrastructure and systems. But ample research shows they can’t raise the investment needed for those big changes on their own. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JULY 31, 2018

Kageyama is an author, whose book For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places was recognized in 2012 as a Top 10 Book in urban planning, design and development.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The first installment will focus on effectively planning a public involvement initiative. From urban planning and public transportation development to local government projects, the public should always play a vital role in the decision-making process and have their voices heard.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. When DC was run by the federal government, the National Capital Parks and Planning Commission ran parks and planning. It's not corrupt--well, not usually.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

" Since I got involved in urban revitalization I argued that DC had five competitive advantages: 1. an urban design dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. historic architecture 2.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 7, 2020

While announcing a stimulus package of INR 20 lakh crore ($260 billion) in his address to the nation on May 12, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to make use of the opportunity provided by the COVID-19 pandemic to. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

These seem like pretty good criteria for use by local planning systems when it comes to the health of the rivers, creeks, canals, waterfronts, lakes, and oceansides in their communities. Alternatively, they could have environment committees that address such issues as part of their purview.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This reminds me that when Toronto did an urban grayfield development project in the 1970s, creating the St. Lawrence neighborhood, schools and other public assets (like a children's theater space, medical clinic, health club) were incorporated into the apartment buildings (" Directions for New Urban Neighbourhoods: Learning from St.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

News, updates, and future plans are often the topics of posts. Steve also has two master’s degrees in urban planning and economics. One of the most current entries was on brining transparency to government. Visitors can read about his many departments from community development to youth works.

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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. for interpretation. The quality of today's brochures pale by comparison. Surprisingly, shade screens are few and far between.

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The City Fix

APRIL 23, 2025

The evidence is clear: the climate crisis is not gender neutral. Climate change is a threat multiplier. As instability intensifies, women are increasingly subject to conflict and its externalities, including gender-based violence and persecution. And because women are disproportionately represented.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Amid the vast Amazon River delta, Belém, Brazil, sits at the intersection of the urban and natural worlds. A network of waterways and islands home to resources like açaí and cacao surround the city, serving as a critical port for.

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The City Fix

MARCH 26, 2025

Looking at more than 350 urban leaders and experts gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, for the Green & Resilient UrbanShift Africa Forum, Dr. Cromwel Lukorito, Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II, issued a simple.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I joke that I might not be a good planner, but I'm great at gap analysis. I meant to read this Financial Times column last week, " The secret to finding the best idea ever?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

. -- " Black History Month and the New Jim Crow ," 2020 -- " Two ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month ," 2020 -- " African American History Month and Urban Planning ," 2019 National Archives photo of a pretty much empty bus during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

which describes a community trying to save a noteworthy tree from being torn down by a developer. And the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments just set a goal of 50% tree cover for the region (" New tree canopy goal for D.C. Their historicity. Also see " In Los Angeles, a Tree With Stories to Tell ," The New York Times.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the special interest sections of the American Planning Association is Planning and Women and the Women's Transportation Seminar is a professional development organization for women working in the transportation field. Women and the history of the planning profession. Women as planners and architects. 3, Supplement.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The British Government was very much involved in "regeneration" at the time, and since the work is in English, it was easy to grasp. My contribution to the field of urban planning. Building neighborhood confidence/The Myth of Community Development. First develop a new practice and figure out if it works.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face. Despite DC being run by the federal government, mostly under the oversight of racist Southern Congressman, the city's transit system was not segregated (" Black activists' post-emancipation battle for D.C.'s Ferguson ," book review).

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