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Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters is discussed in my original "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" entry in 2009, but updated a bunch of times. Characteristics of cultural quarters From Montgomery (2003). It's the difference too between a building and an arts district/cultural quarter.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Like F&F, FHLB leadership teams are motivated to maximize profits. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 billion of losses by just four of the FHLBs in 2009 and 2010. 19 That was a very significant amount 20 years ago. billion for fiscal 2024.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period. In each country, the intelligence and responsiveness of leadership and the comprehension and responsiveness of the people have defined the progress of the crisis.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). In a historical context, when viewing the snapshot of their nascent birth, we can see the peak of OWS has slightly more interest in America than searches for the TPM did during the groups’ peak in 2009” (Parrillo, 2011).