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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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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And as far as health outcomes go, I outlined a brilliant approach (" Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part One: Rearticulating the system of health and wellness care East of the River ," 2018) that the city ignored.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

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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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see: -- " To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network) ," 2022 -- " More on airport-related transit/transit for visitors ," 2013 -- " To get people who have mobility choices to choose transit, they have to know it exists ," 2007 The points in this entry, although ostensibly (..)

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Paris votes to ban electric scooters

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Paris was a pioneer when it introduced e-scooters, or trottinettes, in 2018 as the city’s authorities sought to promote non-polluting forms of urban transport. The city was a pioneer in public bike-rental schemes when it launched Vélib’ in 2007, beating London by five years. Sustainable mobility framework.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

About the same time, 2007, Dr Michael Leavitt of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "We don't know when a pandemic will arrive. However, it is important not to overdo historical comparisons, as we know from looking at the effects of the 1918 'Spanish' influenza (Spinney 2018). McCaw 2007. Mathews et al.

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