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Good quote on arenas and stadiums as "performing arts centers" attractions for cities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Plus the NFL team wants a new stadium and Mayor Bowser of DC would like to waste money attracting them back to DC (" House passes bipartisan bill to let D.C. The S-T article quotes Ron Kirk, mayor of Dallas when the American Airlines Center was built, opening in 2001, and he has some interesting points. Thirty years,” he said.

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

This correlation occurs because air quality is an amenity that is capitalized into housing prices; cleaner air is among the many goods purchased by more affluent households in California. California wildfires, 1980-2000 and 2001-2020 Source: California Fire Perimeters (1898-2020) dataset by Conservation Biology Institute.

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Great article on urban design qualities of Kimmel Center in Philadelphia | extendable to civic assets more generally

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But since it opened in 2001, the Kimmel has sent mixed signals about just how welcoming it really wants to be. Competition for leisure time is stiff, and getting people to leave their houses, a challenge. how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?);

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. From 2000 to 2001, the number of mortgage foreclosures in Cuyahoga County went from 5,900 to almost 7,000.

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The Inland Empire’s Industry Resilience

The Lowe Down

The 2001 recession was concentrated in tech; the 2008-9 recession in housing. The Inland Empire is usually more affected by recessions than Los Angeles County, according to the 2022 State of the Region report. So, what has changed and what has been different since 2020? Every recession affects a different set of industries hardest.

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Advancing connector technologies for multicore optical fibres

Open Access Government - Technology News

In Japan, the nationwide optical fibre cable trunk line network was completed in 1985, and the world’s first commercial fibre to the home (FTTH) service was started in 2001. The optical connector housing is also elastically deformed by physical contact technology that presses the ferrules together to maintain a stable connection.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The third is preserving housing. Shake Shack began as a small hot dog stand operating out of Madison Square Park in New York City in 2001 and grew into a gourmet fast-casual restaurant with more than 377 locations both domestically and internationally. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5