Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
I was surprised to come across a Boston Globe article (" Roxbury, Mattapan, and parts of Jamaica Plain could have become a separate Black majority city. Heres what happened ") on a de-annexation proposal for Boston, where the predominately Black areas would create their own city called Mandela.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Incrementalism is a public administration theory proposed in the 1950s by Charles Lindblom. It opened in 2001 and was completed in 2011, serving Hudson County only, and a recent proposal to finally extend it to Bergen has been further delayed (" Three decades later, the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line still has no Bergen spur.
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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. Steve Pinkerton : He has been the city manager of Manteca, California since 2008. Various contributors to the blog post on local icons, the city, news, and more.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
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. Once too, I misheard a presentation at a conference, and I thought the presenter said she applies "graphic design" approaches to urban planning.
Barrett & Greene
MARCH 4, 2024
As Marc Holzer, a well-known academic and author of Rethinking Public Administration , says, “We have a lot of data out there and a lot of performance measures. Some seem to believe that they’ll only be hit over the head with a statistical stick when efforts don't pay off.
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