The City Fix

JUNE 24, 2021

The global coronavirus pandemic brought a wave of public and private initiatives to help societies adapt and recover, from economic stabilization and safety measures to new business models and shifts in consumption. Many of these initiatives are not green, despite. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

City dwellers worldwide are shifting lifestyles as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in terms of transport. As cities begin to re-open, urban planners and designers are rethinking urban and transport infrastructure to adapt to a post-pandemic world. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Traditional, car-centric transport planning has not only increased greenhouse gas emissions, but has also detrimentally impacted air quality, road injuries and fatalities, and traffic congestion. As the world faces the climate crisis and continues to face a growing global road. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In Africa, as elsewhere, advances in computing power, data storage, and sensor and satellite technologies have unleashed unprecedented opportunities but also challenges. The mobile phone has become a powerful tool for generating vast amounts of data. This data can, in.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Getting more zero-emission trucks on the road is an important transportation shift that is needed to reduce air pollution, protect public health and curb climate-harming emissions. But transforming the entire trucking industry is a challenging feat that will require the.

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The City Fix

MARCH 30, 2020

COVID-19 is shutting down urban transportation networks around the world. But to “flatten the curve” and save lives, critical frontline health workers still need to get to work. In Bogotá, Colombia, where the city has already experimented with providing emergency. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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GovLoop

JUNE 21, 2023

Increasingly, government leaders recognize the need to approach cybersecurity in the same way they approach public health: There must be a holistic network in which the well-being of individuals, or individual systems, depends on and benefits the well-being of others.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Furthermore, prolonged exposure to extreme heat exacerbates public health risks , particularly for vulnerable populations, increasing the incidence of heat-related illnesses and mortality. What can cities do to prevent climate disasters? Use downscaled climate data for infrastructure planning.

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GovLoop

JUNE 11, 2024

Environmental Where do environmental hazards put public health at risk? Still, public policies around zoning, environmental cleanup and other community planning issues often lead to increased risks in communities where constituents lack a say in policy decisions. Here are some examples of what can be done in key policy areas.

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Reprogramming the City

MARCH 22, 2022

San Francisco’s BART transportation agency has released eight ideas for old subway cars that were the winning proposals to repurpose retired trains from the fleet. BART has been working on an ambitious plan to create a “ Fleet of the Future ” for the Bay Area. Baseball Park Beer Garden.

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Reprogramming the City

AUGUST 12, 2020

Public transportation assets have proved adept at being repurposed to serve a human need. This cabin will be used as store and area for paramedics.” ” In all, Indian Railways said 20,000 coaches would be available for potential conversion.

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The City Fix

MARCH 28, 2024

Like many parts of Africa, motorcycles are the most popular form of transportation among Rwanda’s 13.3 Whether they’re commuting to work or school, transporting jugs of water from the local taps or just running everyday errands, people on. million people.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Because Yom Kippur was on 10/5 this year, in the US it was pushed to the second Wednesday in 2022. -- Walk & Roll to School Day Although it's sadly pretty rare, this day should be leveraged by school districts, planning agencies, and transportation departments as a way to promote sustainable mobility options to get to and from school.

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The Whistle Post

JANUARY 15, 2022

Career Support Services such as: Assistance with childcare and transportation while enrolling in training. Home Health Aide. Currently, enrolling for Community Health Workers! Career Exploration and Career Development Plans. Workshops in Healthcare Occupations and Career Advancement. …And more based on grant eligibility.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It will likely be more efficient for communities to pursue these activities under that Rule’s “public health and negative economic impacts” eligible use category, rather than trying to pursue them under the CDBG-eligible projects category. Surface Transportation and CDBG: Combined expenditure limits.

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Policy Chats

JUNE 22, 2020

Before joining the private sector, Mr. Christensen served in several roles as a senior policy official at the United States Department of Agriculture where he concentrated his efforts on supporting public health and production agriculture through the development and implementation of sound science-based public policy.

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Policy Chats

JUNE 22, 2020

Before joining the private sector, Mr. Christensen served in several roles as a senior policy official at the United States Department of Agriculture where he concentrated his efforts on supporting public health and production agriculture through the development and implementation of sound science-based public policy.

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Policy Chats

JUNE 22, 2020

Before joining the private sector, Mr. Christensen served in several roles as a senior policy official at the United States Department of Agriculture where he concentrated his efforts on supporting public health and production agriculture through the development and implementation of sound science-based public policy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Improving public information services To better serve their community, a state agency uses an LLM-powered chatbot enhanced with RAG to provide real-time, accurate information on public transportation schedules, public health advisories, and more.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 16, 2022

Infectious disease outbreaks led to public health policies and modern sanitation. History shows that when disasters and crises strike, cities often bounce back stronger and more resilient than before. The great Chicago fire famously gave rise to skyscrapers. The devastation of World War II catalyzed unprecedented.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

We then deliver actionable data insights to our clients, including healthcare decision makers, government leaders, the emergency response community, health systems, and global public health organizations. health set out to use data and technology to identify the health factors that most impact people.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 29, 2024

The environmental benefits of EV adoption are clear—lower emissions mean cleaner air, which in turn leads to better public health outcomes and a reduction in health-care costs associated with pollution-related illnesses. EVs represent a critical component of their strategy.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A lot of changes have occurred in his years in county government, and he has a wide variety of predictions, concerns and counsel for the changes that public health and human service agencies like his will face in future years. We talked with him this fall while we were researching our future of government jobs series for Route Fifty.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

providing high quality people spaces within a hospital complex becomes very difficult (" Penn’s new hospital belatedly recognizes pedestrian space is a public health issue "). Transit adjacency is a plus for employee transportation. Pedestrians will have to play dodgeball with cars as they make their way past the building.

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The City Fix

MARCH 1, 2022

In recent years, many cities have launched new efforts to build healthier urban environments – happier, safer and cleaner places to work and play. Then, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything. But in many ways, it laid bare the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The state is an oil producer, and has at least five oil refineries, so it is super committed to a gasoline-centric land use and transportation planning paradigm. Although to be fair to public health departments, many do address it. In fact, two of the top ten car dealership groups are based here, one sold for $3.2

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the last few years, there’s been an understandable reassignment of many key communication staff to booster public health campaigns, with few able to prioritize the essential task of updating (now painfully old) policy.

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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 28, 2021

Since its beginning in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero has become a global movement to prevent road fatalities and serious injuries by undertaking a Safe System approach to road safety. But despite the documented successes of the approach in. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Major services such as power generation, telecoms, payments, water supply, public health systems and less obvious ones like traffic lights or petrol pumps are vital to keep a modern country running. They are a chilling reminder of the damage a determined state actor can cause to critical national infrastructure.

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The City Fix

MARCH 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is laying bare two unavoidable facts about our new reality: we are more interconnected than ever, and cities are at the frontlines of this crisis and will be at the frontlines of any similarly globalized crisis in. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Electric vehicles may own the headlines, but our feet remain the most environmentally friendly means of travel, closely followed by bicycles, skateboards, scooters, tricycles and other active, non-motorized modes. Not only does zero-emission active mobility help protect the climate and. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

JUNE 11, 2021

Half a century ago, a lethal haze of smoke and fog, otherwise known as the Great Smog of 1952, covered London and killed as many as 12,000 people. More recently, in 2013, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died at the hands of air pollution. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The world recently experienced a 13-month streak of record-breaking global temperatures. And as blistering heat waves punish communities across several continents, 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record. Global average temperatures are now perilously close to exceeding 1.5.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, cities found themselves on the frontlines of the battle against a new and fast-spreading virus that soon became a global pandemic. Even as some places reacted with smart and swift responses that allowed for a partial return to normalcy, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Healthy Food Policy Project , funded by the USDA, is a collaborative of Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at the Vermont School of Law , the Public Health Law Center , and the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health at the University of Connecticut.

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The City Fix

APRIL 19, 2023

Indore is known as India’s cleanest city, having secured the title seven years in a row in Swachh Bharat National Cleanliness Surveys, and it is now determined to clean its air too. On February 15, the “Clean Air, Clean Indore”

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