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Barack Obama is creating the first Office of Urban Policy. What are the top priorities?
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Metrication of America
Drop the antiquated Imperial System, and Go 100% Metric. How is America suppose to compete in a World Free Trade when no one else uses the same measurement units that only the lone USA uses? And why for the last 35 years did Congress forced American workers and citizens to purchase and use two incompatible systems all the while the World only is using one system, The Metric System? How is that cost effective?
And do it in a three year time period steps. First states to switch over are the ones boardering Canada and Mexico, in the next three… more
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I Agha Dilbar have sent Mr. President 100 registered research Letters (1000 new ideas to develop America and to Change the World for Peace and Prosperity)
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health tax credit for small business promoting walking or cycling as a means to get to work
small businesses get a tax credit if a certain fraction of employees ride bikes, walk, or take public transit to work.
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Offer Subsidy and tax credits for car sharing
Offer tax credits and subsidy for those individuals and corporations that utilize the services of Independent car share organizations across North America. This supports entrepreneurship, locally hiring, reduced emissions (with fewer vehicles), and less stress on the infrastructure.
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Reduce the dependence of cities and states on the Federal government.
"Urban policy" directed from Washington is a huge mistake. Cities (and states) should become more independent and responsive to their own citizens and not be directed by Washington "policy makers".
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Good Student & Good Parent Program
Creating a system of rewards for achievement might help to improve student behaviors and dedication to their education. This "Good Student Grant" program would fund a school "store" that gives out prizes to students, as well as monetary rewards for the child's parents.
Students can earn points for achieving good grades on their report cards, on homework, and tests/quizzes, and then "cash" those points in for prizes found in the school "store".
This system needs to provide points for good behavior also, so that struggling students are also incentivied to participate.
For instance, students could be rewarded for desired behaviors… more1 vote -
Start "living laboratories" for implementing smart growth
Create a streamlined process for starting city- and neighborhood-scale "Green Economy Flagship" buildings. These incubator buildings can house green businesses, green job training, non-profit and community groups, residential spaces, art and cultural facilities. Shared production facilities for green micro-enterprises. The buildings will be retrofitted, "bright green" living buildings that model the resilient communities of the future.
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Encourage holistic development
that addresses the multiple needs of low income populations. Instead of just providing e.g. affordable housing, encourage development and re-development that also looks at food security, environmental safety, access to transportation, jobs, education, and social services, and the like.
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Install green infrastructure to fight heat islands
This can include planting more trees, reducing hard surfaces, creating more shade, using water features to cool urban areas, and more.
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Protect Individual Freedom -- Oppose the Office of UP
The Office of Urban Policy will work very hard to deny you your individual freedoms. It should never exist. Freedom cannot be protected with government stepping into every nook and cranny of your private lives. Oppose this office and instead live free.
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embrace the "No Child Left Inside" vision
For years, children have increasingly lived their lives inside four walls -- doing what can be done within those walls. "Free range kids" are rare; when they get outside, it's often as participants in organized activities. Fortunately, there's a fast growing movement to reverse the trend. Google 'No Child Left Inside;" "Free Range Kids;" and the "Children & Nature Network;" to get an idea what's going on.
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Use Maps to Guide Distribution of Involvement
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications enable maps to be created showing demographics, economic differences, etc. for a defined geographic region. Visualization applications enable leaders to create navigation tools, or blueprints, that point to many different problems that need to be solved at the same time, in an entire region.
If policy makers and leaders create poverty maps showing indicators of what causes poverty, they can use these to encourage private sector, social sector and government involvement in multiple places at the same time, with people choosing where and how they want to be involved. Using such maps they can assure… more
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Provide funding for research on child-friendly environments
Many urban areas in this country designed primarily for cars and not for people, particularly not for children. Though there has been some revitalization of downtown centers in many cities they are not necessarily child-friendly. In order to better design child friendly urban environments though, there needs to be further exploration of what needs children might have in an urban setting. These potentially extensive qualitative studies require funding that has just not been made available in the Bush administration era. It is time for funding in these areas. Research has extensively exhibited that the learning that happens outside of the… more
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