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National Public Lands Day, Saturday September 23rd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They remained open during the 2018-2019 shutdown, through restrooms and information desks were closed and waste disposal was halted. They were closed during a 2013 shutdown. There is tension in the federal laws on parks and public lands, between access and protection, including keeping some lands natural, or wilderness.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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Income Inequality and Democratic Backsliding

The Lowe Down

“Freedom House” gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties. Drawing on these data in the period between 2013 and 2018, it appears that there is not a strong correlation between income inequality and democratic backsliding.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite.

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Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And the GMU campus at Virginia Square in Arlington, Virginia, which has the policy and law schools, and other programs. Faculty creating a cluster, having bright children in schools, supporting community institutions, etc.,

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FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"), SB 1790, 133 Stat 1198, into law. 2013) ("We can think of no other judicially-created doctrine which has been criticized so stridently, by so many jurists, for so long [as the Feres doctrine]."). United States , 733 F.3d 3d 871, 878 (9th Cir.

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Proposal to build new basketball arena in Downtown Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Comparing redevelopment outcomes in central Dallas tax increment financing districts ," Land Use Policy (2021) -- " Role of Sports Facilities in the Process of Revitalization of Brownfields ," IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering (2017) == Economic impact of individual spending by sports patrons.