GovLoop

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Civic tech makes it easier for people to interact with government agencies. Citizens who interact with their local government entities through easy-to-use technology feel more positively about their municipalities. When well-designed, it improves constituent experiences (CX) and promotes equity and engagement.

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Citizen Lab

AUGUST 25, 2022

Placemaking is a people-centered approach to urban planning that focuses on transforming public spaces in a way that brings communities together and creates beautiful, accessible, and interactive cities.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 30, 2023

It’s a pervasive word in community revitalization, urban planning, and housing policy. We also provide customized, expert guidance to state and local governments to assess the state of vacancy in your community and recommend policy and practice solutions for equitable neighborhood revitalization.

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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 Access Government - Technology News

JULY 12, 2023

Artificial intelligence can be a game-changer in the mission of modernizing urban development, especially when it comes to transportation infrastructure Planning and maintaining communities in the modern world is as simple as threading a needle with an elephant.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The municipal governments of both cities have. Following the launch of Colombia’s first National Roadmap for Net Zero Buildings in June 2022, the cities of Bogotá and Cali are setting the foundation for how to implement the roadmap at the local level.

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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. On today’s episode, we’re talking with Peter Kageyama, one of the 2018 NRPA Annual Conference keynote speakers.

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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. Community organizations, local government agencies, and neighborhood residents are all interacting with lots, whether maintaining them, reusing them, or just passively co-existing.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As an advocate, my experience with trying to do "new things" in government, is that you only get one chance to do it right. There are many such examples in government. That there isn't enough social, organizational, community, and financial capital to take up the issue again--to expand it, improve it, etc. She didn't last long.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It was clear that the US Government was influenced by the suffering and the shortcomings of the response to the tragedy as it built up its own capacity to respond to natural hazard impacts. For many years after the disaster local people lived in 40-square-metre wooden prefabricated homes, the transitional housing provided by the government.

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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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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Cyclone Amphan slammed into countries surrounding the Sea of Bengal this May. The storm was the second most powerful the region has seen in two decades, affecting over 12 million people in four countries. In Bangladesh, the water surged up to 4. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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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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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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. This new service was slated to launch in fall 2021 – just a few months later.

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The City Fix

MAY 8, 2024

Mexico became the first nation to declare access to safe mobility a human right in 2020 and two years later passed the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety to protect people, reduce collisions and promote sustainable modes of travel. Now, with this new.

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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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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

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.

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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. Learn more about the Council-Manager Government they have with a visit.

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The City Fix

JUNE 24, 2024

The country’s cities are at the forefront of the climate crisis with more than 80% of the urban population living in. India is the seventh most climate-vulnerable country in the world, with nine of its states among the top 50 most vulnerable regions globally.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2024

Every once in awhile I get "despondent" about DC Government, and all the job interviews I had to no avail (I did get a job offer once, but they then reneged with no explanation--I figure it was because of my "outspokenness"). But all I wanted to do was help to make the city better.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

. -- " DC puts forward legislation to create Waterways Commission and Authority ," 2019 Communities with rivers, creeks, lakes and oceansides should probably have a separate element of their master plans addressing relevant issues. Alternatively, they could have environment committees that address such issues as part of their purview.

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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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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Ontario government is set to announce its $44 million contribution for the new school on Friday morning, a partnership between the province, Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and Menkes Developments. just east of Yonge St., the Star has learned.

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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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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.

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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

Generally, they have the power to weigh in on matters before government bodies. Rational planning is pretty static at least to me, with constrained scopes and less willingness to change approaches and recommendations as new information is uncovered. Other cities have differently named similar organizations.

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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

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. But a city or county tree plan--like the point I made about parks plans and architecture--is formulaic too. area calls on Arlington to get greener ," Arlington Now).

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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. At the Urban Forum in Philadelphia in 2003, I asked one of the speakers, Charles Buki, what were some of his key influences.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 4, 2024

As we recently reported in the second of a two-part series about Trust In Government for Route Fifty, about 45% of Americans have a less than favorable view of the trustworthiness of local governments, according to data from Polco. And while it’s better than the federal government it’s still a very sorry state of affairs.

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