Barack Obama is creating the first Office of Urban Policy. What are the top priorities?
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27 votes
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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1 votes
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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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1 votes
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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25 votes
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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6 votes
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 facili... more
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43 votes
Support Green Schoolyards in Urban Schools
Many city kids have no access to or knowledge of the natural world. School gardens and habitat areas become outdoor classrooms for experiential learning, environmental literacy and systems thinking. These relatively low cost installations could prove to be our most valuable and productive urban o... more
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1 votes
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.
Stu... more
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3 votes
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 tren... more
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9 votes
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,... more
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3 votes
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2 votes
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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3 votes
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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1 votes
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... more
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2 votes
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8 votes
Create Community Art Centers
Urban and suburban communities throughout the country would be benefitted by the creation of art centers.
The art centers would have resources like music recording spaces, dance halls, performing auditoriums, and black box theaters.
It would create a constructive environment for youth to spen... more
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1,903 votes
Invest in a world-class rail network
Build a world-class rail system between cities and within them to transport people and goods more efficiently.