Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While the Roxbury initiative was voted on, twice, it didn't pass (" Separatist City of Mandela : Boston Voting on Proposal to Let Black Areas Secede ," Los Angeles Times ). And how Black elected leadership didn't make a lot of difference to urban outcomes compared to their more recent white predecessors.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ).

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Housing Government Elected Officials Leadership 52

Masters in Public Administration

JUNE 13, 2011

Public administration has a rich history that dates back to the Greeks. Public administration is putting laws in action to better serve a civilization and the public. Here’s a look at 10 interesting facts about the history of public administration. Public administration is an ever evolving area.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Woodrow Wilson’s essay entitled “The Study of Administration” (1887) detailed the study of administration and has been viewed as the beginning of public administration as a field of study. It was this difference that became known as the politics-administration dichotomy. Image: Wikipedia.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Public Realm as an Interconnected system, Slide from presentation, "Leadership and the Role of Parks and Recreation in the New Economy," David Barth and Carlos Perez, AECOM. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

While journalists covered the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements exhaustively, the body of literature in the academic world is still relatively small in examining outcomes based on these social movements; even smaller in public administration and political science emphasized journals.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Why “meeting people where they are” matters: 1) We are generally a passive voting audience, if you meet us where we are, in theory we are more likely to participate – right? Check out the full schedule and join the conversation with #BigBlockOfCheeseDay.

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