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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

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.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

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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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This pamphlet was an advertising supplement inserted in the Washington Star, 3/21/1976. In 2009 and a couple times afterwards, I said it was necessary for WMATA to rebuild the regional/metropolitan consensus about support for transit. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St.

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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

But even before that I went back and forth on it. Was it merely DC trying to copy other unusual creative infrastructure endeavors (at the same time there was an attempt to create a similar bridge in London, under then Mayor Boris Johnson, " An absurd vanity project for our age – Boris Johnson’s garden bridge ," Guardian ).

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014. 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. The monocentric subnetwork of the DC Metrorail system serves the core of DC.