Librarian.net
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.
Librarian.net
JANUARY 2, 2023
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.
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Librarian.net
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
You can never stop (" MAIN STREET NICHES IN A MASS SALES WORLD ," Neil Peirce, 2004). I summarize this as when you have a choice between two or more districts, you choose to visit the one that's easier to get to, with more and better options (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2016).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
I participated in a workshop on the plaza led by Project for Public Spaces and Scenic America in 2004 ( write up ). This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. Allow the sales of alcohol.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
Transit and economic development. The velocity of change from NoMA Metrorail station was so significant it convinced me that the public investment with the fastest ROI, at least when done right, is transit. And that super shifted my interest towards transit and economic development , c.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. When it is the Idea Store ,” 2004, Guardian ). That will add to the activation-specialness-fun element of the concept of the Bridge Park.
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