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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

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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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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

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.

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Madison Wisconsin should be rethinking its pedestrian "district"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wrote about Boulder's in 2005, " Now I know why Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is the exception that proves the rule about the failures of pedestrian malls." Exhibition Road in London is much better design-wise ( Guardian review , 2012). Flickr photo by Let Ideas Compete. But I suppose it is a start.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC ," 2011, " Silver line reshaping commercial office market in Fairfax County ," 2015, and " Without the right planning "controls" you can't stop change: Loudoun County and rail service in Northern Virginia ," 2012). This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.)

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. 16] See my article “The Role of the Implied Guarantee Subsidy in FHLB Membership,” July 20, 2020, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, for more on the implied guarantee and how it works.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

4 That average will change slightly each year to reflect the normal annual variation in the mix of products and borrower characteristics – for example, it was up by two basis points (bp) in 2021 over 2020, but down by the same amount from the prior year. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49 Also, the 0.10

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