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Pam Bridgeforth of Camden Repertory Theatre talks about building community

Iron Sharpens Iron

Shelton, a Camden, NJ native, in 2005 and initiated their inaugural season in August 2006. In 2008, the organization stepped out on faith, clipped their wings, and began soaring independently. Shelton, a Camden, NJ native, in 2005 and initiated their inaugural season in August 2006. About Camden Repertory Theatre.

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Pam Bridgeforth of Camden Repertory Theatre talks about building community

Iron Sharpens Iron

Shelton, a Camden, NJ native, in 2005 and initiated their inaugural season in August 2006. In 2008, the organization stepped out on faith, clipped their wings, and began soaring independently. Shelton, a Camden, NJ native, in 2005 and initiated their inaugural season in August 2006.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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School district wide retention and improvement initiatives: Kalamazoo Promise

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They created the Hennepin Works initiative as an infrastructure investment program to do just that ( "A County and Its Cities: the Impact of Hennepin Community Works ," Journal of Urban Affairs, 2008). Later they added light rail transit to the program. Also, less successful, it is the site of the first Downtown pedestrian mall in the US.

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Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Obviously, DC itself has successful examples of doing this, although more with replacing the civic asset rather than including it going forward.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Relatedly, in 2008, Saffron wrote that the city's newest hospital building was designed for the suburbs, not the city (" Penn got a trophy, not a triumph, in hospital design "). Inga Saffron of the Philadelphia Inquirer makes the point that because hospital planning is in large part focused on accommodating cars in parking, etc.,