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Boost Your Community Engagement Rates with QR Codes

Social Pinpoint

It wasn’t until 2002, that the first mobile phones containing built-in QR readers were marketed in Japan making it possible for more companies to make use of QR codes. smartphone users scanned a QR code in 2021. QR codes come from humble beginnings. In fact, over 6.6 billion people around the world now use smartphones and 75.8

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety.