Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In writing the previous post on schools as neighborhood anchors, I referenced the Planning Whole Communities Toolkit , by the Puget Sound Regional Council. Speaking of National Community Planning Month , this could become the foundation of a broader and deeper community planning toolkit, by adding various "missing" sections.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 18, 2023

Nicknamed Justice40, this initiative challenges local governments and nonprofit agencies to actively engage people living in disadvantaged communities in participating in the planning of major infrastructure improvements such as bridges, public transportation, clean air and water initiatives, and more.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The program places students in paid summer internships at the departments of Commerce or Transportation or the General Services Administration. I worked in the Office of the White House Liaison, which onboards political appointees and places them within the different offices and bureaus that fall under Commerce.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 8, 2024

But I also made the point that the City Transportation Department could have handled outreach a lot better--basically they didn't do any. These are photos of a couple of outreach devices they deployed, including a signboard in the roundabout and a flyer dropped off at area houses.

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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Terrance doesn’t have a car, but he’s been using public transportation all his life. Settle on a general answer to these questions: Age range Income Education level Living situation (Married, single, living with multiple generations in one house, living in an apartment, unhoused, etc.) Values community engagement and local events.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Some time ago, I learned about how the LA Police Department in association with the Housing Authority, created what they called a community safety partnership, to put officers full time in high crime housing projects. Parks conservancies as more engaged parks managers. Engaging the community in positive activities is crucial.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park.

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The Whistle Post

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In addition participants engage in academic supports and leadership opportunities through community service projects. At YouthBuild, low-income young people learn construction skills by building affordable housing for homeless and low-income people in their neighborhoods and other community assets such as playgrounds.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Redefining vacant land as a system also highlights the importance of engaging stakeholders in achieving community development goals. Here are some examples of how vacant land can integrate with other systems, like transportation, stormwater management, and economics, along with neighborhood life.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Additionally, sector-specific regulations in the financial and transportation sectors, such as those from the Dodd-Frank Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), govern AI use in financial services, aviation, and autonomous vehicles.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 8, 2024

Our Nation Ending Fear, Intimidation, Rape, and Endangerment — ONE FIRE — began as a single point of contact for services victims might need, including temporary shelter, emergency groceries, transportation, legal representation and even someone to go to the hospital with them. It can house up to 10 families.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That means that schools need to invest resources in engaging with the neighborhood beyond the school grounds. This school is located a couple blocks from our DC house, and for the first few years after it opened, they made a big effort to do outreach to the neighborhood, to invite residents to school events, etc., but it fell off.

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Social Pinpoint

AUGUST 28, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore three benefits of diversity in community engagement: Diversity can help groups to analyze the facts more clearly. This also means that your community engagement needs to be intentional. Without diversity in community engagement, we will only see a problem through the majority group’s lens.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 12, 2023

If your community plans to engage in activities under the expanded CDBG-eligible use category, work closely with your local CDBG compliance officer. Surface Transportation and CDBG: Combined expenditure limits. With this usage expansion, communities can use ARPA SLFRF for activities that could help reduce and prevent vacant properties.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This equals approximately 7 billion trips per year, making school buses one of the most widely used forms of public transport in the United States.  More than 20 million students in the United States ride school buses every year. But those trips aren’t always.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The Walking City urban form is the "urban technology" that supports active cities (" Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis" ," " Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving ," 2024). Philadelphia has advantages. blocks from a light rail station.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Back a year ago, for example, we wrote that phase one of the city’s efforts – notably priority-based budgeting (PBB) –involved three departments: police, human resources and transportation and public works. A couple of other initiatives that Cooke talked about a year ago were to begin implementing both Lean Six Sigma and Sunrise Reviews.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Back a year ago, for example, we wrote that phase one of the city’s efforts – notably priority-based budgeting (PBB) –involved three departments: police, human resources and transportation and public works. A couple of other initiatives that Cooke talked about a year ago were to begin implementing both Lean Six Sigma and Sunrise Reviews.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But, whether it’s supply-chain issues, energy policies or changes in transportation, many are scrambling to recover lost time on overdue consultations. Our tip: engage early to foster co-creation and trust with a public now acutely aware of their right to have their say. . More on the trends changing community engagement here.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 22, 2023

AI can enhance customer engagement, streamline operations, and provide a competitive advantage when implemented effectively, but, without ethical systems, could result in serious challenges of bias. construction, transport, defence, etc.) We argue here that ethical systems for AI are a must for your business.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With over half of the world’s population living in cities, urban spaces not only house us but offer opportunities for collective work and learning while serving as sources of creativity, inspiration and hope. Nevertheless, cities also account for a staggering.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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GovLoop

JUNE 11, 2024

Transportation Does public transit support parents seeking assistance? In addition to highlighting areas in need of assistance, the tool is intended to provide guidance about future decisions with public health consequences, such as permitting fracking and mining.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Today we had a ribbon cutting for the new Fabian Lakeside Pavilion at Sugar House Park in Salt Lake, where I am on the board. Luckily, we have a couple of more engaged board members, and the board is becoming more active and less passive. = One of seven pavilions, they are about 60 years old. But you've got to invest in those boards.

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The City Fix

MARCH 3, 2021

In some ways, cities are like households: they must make adjustments in spending based on cash flow. If your income is cut in half, then you may have to dramatically rethink your standard of living. COVID-19 has hit many households. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

If we’re going to have societal impact,” he said, “we have to be engaged in the communities and help them achieve their desires and dreams.” Transit adjacency is a plus for employee transportation. But I haven't seen a good transportation demand management study of hospital workers trip to work. (In

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The City Fix

JUNE 13, 2022

Like many European cities in the 20th century, Vitoria-Gasteiz, capital of the Basque Country in Spain, experienced rapid population growth, followed by increased motorization and urban sprawl. What makes Vitoria-Gasteiz stand out is the coordinated action its leaders and community. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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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

MAY 13, 2021

Monterrey, like other major Mexican cities, rapidly expanded outward during the end of the 20th century. New policies favored investment in new suburban neighborhoods, attracting residents and businesses to the periphery, and provoking several decades of insecurity and population decline. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

So it's the "entertainment city" idea but extending it to many more elements, making work and other spaces "more fun," engaging and active. The FT article mentions the Prudential Center in Boston, calling attention to how the first two floors of the building are set up to be open and connected and engaging-- shopping and food.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction The United States is in the midst of a severe shortage of affordable housing for low-and-middle-income (LMI) families as both home prices and rents have climbed faster than household income for many years, particularly during the pandemic. with a much higher market share of 14 percent in rural geographies.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

Although the residential housing market continues to be hot, the commercial property might be a concern in the future as a result of the possible working modality change. His substantive research topic interests include infrastructure (transportation) finance and policy, disaster finance, fiscal transparency, and financial accounting.

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The City Fix

JULY 30, 2024

When you hear “infrastructure,” most people naturally think of the physical built environment — roads, bridges, buildings. There’s a lot less emphasis on other kinds of infrastructure that are equally as important, like civic infrastructure. Civic infrastructure encompasses a broad.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?); Social Marketing 3.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Not only will the funder require one, but they may expect to have significant input on your M&E plan, to the point of telling you the indicators you should use; this level of engagement is not uncommon in government-funded grants. What kinds of things should be part of your review? 4 laptops, 3 iPads, and 3 mobile phones.

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