Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Planners are tasked with considering the future and dealing with it, not trying to prevent change necessarily, but instead working to manage it and mitigate and limit negative effects, in ways that are good for the city in general and neighborhoods specifically, simultaneously. At the same time, there is a different cleavage.

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 5, 2024

The conversation turned to performance management (one of our favorite topics) and the question was posed to us: “What do you think are the biggest impediments to more widespread use of that discipline? Over many years, we’ve talked to scores, maybe hundreds, of people who have dedicated their lives to managing government performance.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I mean, it's not like the arguing that is typical between the Executive and Legislative branches, this is an intra-government tiff. I guess that Greg O'Dell, long time CEO, left for the private sector a couple years ago (" Greg O’Dell Named OVG360 President for Venue Management ," SportsTravel).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

But these many decades later the two counties mostly have independent planning regimes and little coordination when it comes to land use, although the MNCPPC structure still exists and there are some joint functions. Even in the best of times there is a lot of opposition to planning and planners. It's not corrupt--well, not usually.

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