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

Center for Community Progress

Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. The disproportionate impact in Ohio paved the way for Ohio’s General Assembly to pass a comprehensive county land bank statute in 2009.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. The Complete Guide to City Living , 2004, Retire Downtown: The Lifestyle Destination for Active Retirees and Empty Nesters , 2006, both by Kyle Ezell), but mostly in weak market cities where the office districts were depopulated by business. schools (and daycare).

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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

FWIW, Allegheny Hospital in particular is a best practice example in their support of local community development corporations, providing grants to staff towards housing purchases near the hospital, which extends to West Penn in Bloomfield, etc. 5, signaling a new era of healthcare ," Cleveland Plain Dealer ).

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. We did this in 2008 or 2009. Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St.

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10 Awesome Repurposed Emergency Bunkers

Emergency Management Degree Guide

And in 2006, Bunker-42 was bought privately and re-purposed as a Cold War museum, restaurant, karaoke bar, conference center and wedding venue. The hotel opened in 2009 and didn’t provide any luxury amenities such as flat-screen TVs. Tea House on Bunker – Vreeswijk, Netherlands. The Shelter (Nightclub) – Shanghai, China.

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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

The third is preserving housing. Many years ago Leimert Park in Los Angeles was featured in the Washington Post as a black-business district (" Los Angeles's Black Pride: Taking In the Retro Vibe of Leimert Park ," places , 2006). There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). In the past there was nowhere for this kind of sentiment to go.