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Back in 1980, social scientist Michael Lipsky coined the phrase "street-level bureaucrats" to describe how front-line public servants like police and firefighters inevitably must exercise judgment to decide how to translate the law.

Phineas Baxandall: In the Public Interest: Problems With Privatized Law Enforcement's New Frontier Phineas Baxandall 2011

Back in 1980, social scientist Michael Lipsky coined the phrase "street-level bureaucrats" to describe how front-line public servants like police and firefighters inevitably must exercise judgment to decide how to translate the law.

Phineas Baxandall: In the Public Interest: Problems With Privatized Law Enforcement's New Frontier Phineas Baxandall 2011

Back in 1980, social scientist Michael Lipsky coined the phrase "street-level bureaucrats" to describe how front-line public servants like police and firefighters inevitably must exercise judgment to decide how to translate the law.

Phineas Baxandall: In the Public Interest: Problems With Privatized Law Enforcement's New Frontier Phineas Baxandall 2011

By contrast, in the scruffy blocks around the corner of New York Avenue and Bladensburg Road in Northeast Washington, where the first of four Wal-Marts planned for the District would probably be built, the residents have more immediate, street-level concerns.

Wal-Mart's arrival in District looks like welcome advance for shopping, jobs Robert McCartney 2011

By contrast, in the scruffy blocks around the corner of New York Avenue and Bladensburg Road in Northeast Washington, where the first of four Wal-Marts planned for the District would probably be built, the residents have more immediate, street-level concerns.

Wal-Mart's arrival in District looks like welcome advance for shopping, jobs Robert McCartney 2011

(Though I know lots of nice folks at Condé, they don't seem to mimic street-level hip hop marketing as often as one might hope.)

Anil Dash 2009

The renovation to create the visitor's center will including reskinning the street-level facade of 103 Orchard in glass—an attempt to enliven what project architect Nicholas Leahy calls a "dead corner."

New View Into Tenement Life Lana Bortolot 2011

By contrast, in the scruffy blocks around the corner of New York Avenue and Bladensburg Road in Northeast Washington, where the first of four Wal-Marts planned for the District would probably be built, the residents have more immediate, street-level concerns.

Wal-Mart's arrival in District looks like welcome advance for shopping, jobs Robert McCartney 2011

You say you want a revolution, here's a quick look at the social media secrets of street-level organizers.

Tom Hayes: Revolutionary Apps: the Real Social Media Driving Today's Political Protests Tom Hayes 2011

Grant Morrison does not generally do street-level, real-world comic book storytelling.

Scott Mendelson: Blu Ray review: All-Star Superman (2011) Scott Mendelson 2011