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4/12/2016 T&G latest Catalogue for web archive http://us6.campaignarchive1.com/?u=a8442b39272334b17310ee5cf&id=342340313a&e=483d54048b 1/4 Issue #3: March (sort of) 2016 View this email in your browser Building Ideas Catalogue (Vol.3, No.1) Your Resource for Built Environment Research Building Ideas Catalogue is a periodic index of articles and reports for Town+Gown participants to use as an evolving research resource to support Town+Gown’s systemic action research program. For more information on Town+Gown, please visit our website . Terri Matthews, Director Management With all the attention paid to big data and datadriven decisionmaking, a look at data collection . Geography Simi Hoque, Assistant Professor, Building and Technology, at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has developed a tool for planners that helps predict outcomes by anticipating how changes aimed at environmental interventions in one urban system would affect other urban systems (via Planetizen ). An interview with Robert Caro on his authoritative book on power in planning large scale public works (via Architecture News Now ) Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate

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Page 1: Building Ideas Catalogue - New York · From the Congressional Budget Office, Alternatives for Making Federal Highway Spending More Productive. The impact of financial control mechanisms

4/12/2016 T&G latest Catalogue ­ for web archive

http://us6.campaign­archive1.com/?u=a8442b39272334b17310ee5cf&id=342340313a&e=483d54048b 1/4

Issue #3: March (sort of) 2016 View this email in yourbrowser

Building Ideas Catalogue (Vol.3, No.1)Your Resource for Built Environment Research

Building Ideas Catalogue is a periodic index of articles and reports for Town+Gown

participants to use as an evolving research resource to support Town+Gown’s systemic

action research program.  For more information on Town+Gown, please visit our

website.

Terri Matthews, Director

Management

With all the attention paid to big data and data­driven decision­making, a look at datacollection.

Geography

Simi Hoque, Assistant Professor, Building and Technology, at University ofMassachusetts, Amherst, has developed a tool for planners that helps predictoutcomes by anticipating how changes aimed at environmental interventions in oneurban system would affect other urban systems (via Planetizen).  An interview with Robert Caro on his authoritative book on power in planning large scalepublic works (via Architecture News Now) 

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Harry Tum, Professor of Urban Studies at CUNY/Queens College discusses the role ofindustrial land in a modern urban center (via Planetizen).

Economics

New York City Independent Budget Office discusses: 

the growth of debt service (on bonds that finance the City’s capital program) inits Analysis of the Mayor’s 2017 Preliminary Budget and Financial Plan Through2020: Overview the financing of MTA’s capital program in Pledges Made by the City and State toThe MTA, but Uncertainties Persist funding for the City’s transportation projects in Transportation Funds Added forVision Zero, Traffic Enforcement Cameras 

Congress creates a bipartisan caucus focusing on municipal finance—the federaltax code exemption of interest on state and local government debt is the primary vehiclestate and local governments use to finance their capital programs. On a bottom up approach to economic development that connects the economicsand politics of regional markets.     From the Congressional Budget Office, Alternatives for Making Federal HighwaySpending More Productive. The impact of financial control mechanisms on public infrastructure (remember NewYork City’s bridges after New York City’s “control period”?) 

Regional Plan Association looks at The Unintended Consequences of HousingFinance. Data DIGest reports on a variety of economic indicators related to the constructionindustry.  Relative to the 12­month period ending January 2015, construction startsduring the 12­month period ending January 2016 were up 6 percent, construction costsfell again in February, construction industry employment reached the highest levelsince December 2008, and construction spending in January was 10.4 percent higher forprior 12 months compared to same period the prior year.  While certain price declines reduce the cost of capital projects, they portend risks aheadfor state government revenues, which finance state capital programs as well assubsidies to local government capital programs (via Governing).

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Design

New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, in partnership withthe Design Trust for Public Space (which has a long history of collaborating with Cityagencies on design guidelines) has recently released guidelines on ground floor designin mixed­use affordable housing projects (via Architects News Now).  Interior office design (via Architecture News Now) opportunities abound with thepredicted death of desk top personal computers.

T+G News

Rebooting the Research Agenda, the annual kick off to collectively revising Town+Gown’sResearch Agenda, took place on February 29, 2016 @ NYC Department of Youth andCommunity Development’s lovely auditorium.  Terri Matthews, Director of Town+Gown,summarized how the experiential component of Town+Gown works and ran through the2015­2016 projects in the program.  Mark Seaman, Senior Economist of the PortAuthority of New York and New Jersey, discussed his collaboration on some completedTown+Gown projects.  And then, John Magisano, Assistant Director of Town+Gown,facilitated a working session among the participants to develop new research questions.on the spot

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Town+Gown expects to revise the Research Agenda questions in May, in time forexperiential learning programs to be able to use the document for planning the nextyear’s programs.  Please put a soft hold on May 16, from 3 to 5 p.m., for the “handingoff” meeting—details to follow.  If you want to submit a research question, please use theform at: http://ddctowngown.org/suggest­a­research­question/

Finally, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) and the Mayor's Office ofRecovery and Resiliency sent a Mini RFP for a wind study required by Local Law81/2013 to DDC for release to the Town+Gown Academic Consortium Contract pool onMarch 14, 2016, with Proposals in Response due to DOB on April 15, 2016. 

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