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.

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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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2022 Books 2006 2005 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

I've written about relocation of DC government agencies over the years as a misguided economic development strategy (" The Reeves Center Myth Revisited ," 2011, " Office Buildings Won't Save Anacostia ," 2005). Especially in secondary and tertiary business districts.

2007 52

2007 Development 2014 Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

WMATA's 2005 study, Development-Related Ridership Survey , found significant car trip reduction associated with the buildings in Metrorail station catchment areas, even in areas outside the core. The monocentric subnetwork of the DC Metrorail system serves the core of DC.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Parks And Recreation Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Third, was the pro-tunnel effort, which failed, and the desire to have a better connection to the Dulles Airport Terminal, more comparable to National Airport (" Winners and losers with the Dulles subway project ," 2007). This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.)

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Transportation 2011 Sustainability 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

This was described on the one hand as unfair, since it relied on overcharging low-risk borrowers “who had played by all the rules” and, on the other hand, as unduly incenting bad loans at the GSEs (by charging too little for high-risk loans) in a quasi-replay of the lead up to the mortgage bubble of 2005 to 2008. ” [link].

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Government 2008 Housing Implementation 52