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Community safety partnership for MacArthur Park in Los Angeles?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. The program has been quite successful (" After Years Of Violence, L.A.'s

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7 Major Transformations to Solve Urban Inequality

The City Fix

The house has a toilet and electricity, but the costs for both. 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. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units. Sometimes a local government may make grants to organizations in this space that are nonprofits, but the groups are generally a mix of for profits and nonprofits. And it's not particularly systematic. But they need planners too.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. Technically.

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2021 Spotlight: The U.S. Cities with the Most Satisfied Residents

zencity

At Zencity, we help local governments improve services by helping them understand what their residents prioritize , what they’re talking about, and what they feel is lacking. It’s a measurement that local governments can use to understand where they’re doing well, where they need to improve, and more importantly, for performance management.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. Times Square Alliance Streetwatch program is another layer for paying attention to the public space.

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Happy MLK Day

Media Policy Center

” On March 18, 1968, just days before his murder Dr. King spoke to a crowd of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. We are tired of having to live in dilapidated, substandard housing conditions where we don’t have wall to wall carpet, but so often end up with wall to wall rats and roaches.