American City & Country

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Here are the steps ATI took to restore the lab: Water Extraction: ATI worked with a structural engineer to develop a protocol that allowed for the extraction of up to four feet of water per 24 hours, ensuring safety and structural integrity. Recyclable metals were salvaged and recycled.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2024

Why so long, so obtuse, about developing a yard waste diversion program? But unlike neighboring jurisdictions, DC has never developed a yard waste diversion program for these neighborhoods. Momentum also offers glass drop off recycling in various locations around the city, which is what we use.

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The City Fix

JUNE 23, 2021

Last month the GSMA announced the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The application deadline for the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services is July. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The data included information on previous inspections and permit requests, sanitation complaints and requests made to the city’s 311 program for services. Develop a process for assessing the performance of AI and machine learning programs. Noveck noted that the project increased inspectors’ effectiveness by 25%.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The data included information on previous inspections and permit requests, sanitation complaints and requests made to the city’s 311 program for services. Develop a process for assessing the performance of AI and machine learning programs. Noveck noted that the project increased inspectors’ effectiveness by 25%. Automation by Learning.

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Peak Proposals

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

No, you probably didn’t—nor did you develop the project activities, design the log frame, create the budget, or recruit the proposed project staff. in agriculture, global health, monitoring and evaluation, water and sanitation, etc.). As the grant writer, you’re in a vulnerable spot. Did you write the entire proposal?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. New York City has since developed many such groups for parks and and business districts. and they collect special monies to pay for it.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 6, 2020

The large cities in the Latin American region all have one thing in common: the opportunities for employment and income are concentrated in a few districts while, more and more, sprawling housing zones are located on the outskirts of cities. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

JULY 9, 2024

Amazonian cities are diverse in opportunities and needs. The region’s biodiversity is among the world’s most important, but its cities’ sustainability challenges are less well-known. These jurisdictions require financial support and capacity building to create sustainable, conservation-oriented, equitable, urban green.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Owusu lives with his wife and four children in the Tantra Hills neighborhood of Accra, Ghana, where he shares his residence with five other tenants and their families. The house has a toilet and electricity, but the costs for both. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

MAY 27, 2021

During Caroline Owala’s childhood, flooding during rainstorms was a normal occurrence. When it rained, it would be very difficult for us to even sleep because the flooding would get into the houses,” she told WRI. Caroline grew up in Kibera, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 16, 2020

City life can be deeply unfair. This was true before the COVID-19 pandemic exposed just how differently the rich and poor are able to cope with lockdowns, from ability to work from home to access to green space. The pandemic’s. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently launched Mumbai’s first-ever climate budget, making it the first city in India and the fourth in the world (after Oslo, New York and London) to launch a climate budget. While Mumbai works to expand and institutionalize their.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Cities are not just places where people live—they are interconnected networks of people, services and economic activity. A city is a system of systems, bringing together transportation, energy, buildings, water, waste management and more. Transforming these interconnected systems is vital.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 9, 2023

The latest UN climate conference, COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, was a significant one for cities in many respects. Delegates established a new fund to help vulnerable countries deal with loss and damages from climate impacts, and some of.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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The City Fix

MAY 4, 2020

As the world reels from the COVID-19 pandemic, investment packages are taking shape to provide relief and recovery. Cities from New York to Nairobi are not only on the frontlines of the health and economic impacts, but they provide immense. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

MAY 2, 2023

India is projected to overtake China as the most populous country in the world this year. The shifting demographics are bound to create heightened demand for education, health care, jobs and civic amenities, putting existing systems under stress. Current urban.

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The City Fix

APRIL 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a disruptive new normal for everyone through shelter-in-place orders and social distancing guidelines. But for the billions of urban poor, these guidelines aren’t just burdensome; they’re essentially impossible. Social distancing is a critically important response. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

APRIL 17, 2020

Inequality is shaping how people are experiencing COVID-19 in cities to a startling degree. The vulnerability of the urban poor is striking everywhere, but the divide is more visible in some places than others. This is where I live on. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

JULY 10, 2024

In Kenya and throughout east Africa, flooding this past April and May wreaked havoc, leaving a path of deadly destruction. The unprecedented deluge of heavy rainfall resulted in a catastrophe that many in Kenya have never witnessed. According to a June.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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The City Fix

APRIL 12, 2023

South Africa’s cities are economic engines, drawing workers across the country and the continent. Of the country’s 58.8 million population, 68% live in urban areas. Between 2000 and 2014, urban area in South Africa expanded by 1,464 km2. Population projections.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 5, 2023

Africa’s population is growing faster than any other continent’s and its urban population is expected to more than double by 2050. This urban rapid growth, which is mostly sprawling “horizontal” growth, as the World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City shows, is combining with climate.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Meet the 2024 Service to America Medals winners Federal Employee of the Year Medal At the Department of Labor, Nancy Alcantara, Shannon Rebolledo, Justin Uphold and the Packers Sanitation Leads Team discovered more than 100 children ages 13 to 17 illegally working on dangerous machinery in 13 meat slaughterhouses across eight states. “[The

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Solid waste workers have been indispensable to protecting cities around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their heroic examples, from India to Vietnam to Latin America, have helped cities keep moving. But a critical alignment of factors is making their. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 26, 2022

Problems such as graffiti, people in mental health crisis, sanitation, etc., In addition, BIDs like the Times Square Alliance also have some capacity to address issues through sanitation staff and other means. Many communities lack a clear process for reporting and addressing problems in the public space.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 31, 2023

Climate change is already having a significant impact on Africa’s ecosystems, economy and society. This year alone, 1.8 million Africans were displaced during a prolonged drought, the Democratic Republic of Congo experienced catastrophic flooding, and Cyclone Freddy left a trail of destruction in Malawi and Mozambique.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 30, 2022

Government agencies like Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) are committed to improving the quality of life of Canadians by making sure the country’s abundant natural resources, including energy, forests, minerals, and metals, are developed sustainably. According to the UN, access to water and sanitation is a human right.

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