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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. My plan was to read LESS this year than last year and I did a good job. One hundred and fourteen books. I was busier, happier. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. average read per month: 9.5

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

African Americans and Latinos are more likely to suffer from respiratory diseases caused by air pollution, because they are more likely to live near sources of pollution, such as highways and industrial facilities (American Lung Association, 2023). in the period 2006-2010. for 2016-2020. We focus on PM2.5, in 2011-2015 and 0.09

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Implications and Geography of Office to Housing Conversions

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

On February 28th, 2023, Mark Willis, the NYU Furman Center’s Senior Policy Fellow, testified at a City Council Oversight Hearing on Residential Conversions of Office Buildings. This post describes three resources to help inform the debate.

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Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Restaurants are still closing in 2023. But hands down, the easiest bread to bake comes from the recipes by Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery in New York City, first popularized by an article in the New York Times in 2006 --although it took me til 2020 to finally start baking it regularly.

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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

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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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)

4] See Bloomberg’s article from Dec 20, 2023, “A $1.3 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. 81 trillion.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Mexico border between 1993 and 2006. Lee statue with a revisionist exhibit placed around it (" Monuments, historiography, and change ," 2020). Celebrate Brooklyn is an annual free concert series at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park. And there were alternatives. E.g., I thought it would be cool to reinterpret the Robert E.