A Library Writer's Blog
MARCH 6, 2024
The Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee of BRASS is seeking articles for the next issue of its online publication, Academic BRASS. Academic BRASS is a newsletter--not a journal--that publishes issue-based articles and information for the general and educational interest of BRASS members and academic business librarians.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
Note that before the book, there was an article in Fortune Magazine , " Downtown is for people " ( pdf ). The Downtown Action Plan highlights summary is available now, and the full Action Plan will be available in Spring 2024. It's a very important book, about the recentralization of metropolitan areas focused on center city revival.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 11, 2024
The core thesis of this two-part article is that the congressional design of GSEs has a fundamental flaw: that subsidies and privileges given to a GSE will inevitably, over time, drift to being used unduly to produce stand-alone profit to benefit their owners and executives, and too little to support its intended mission. See [link]. [25]
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2023
They are looking to improve transit but haven't had a lot of success--failed tax referenda in 2020 and 2022 with another possible attempt for 2024, and there is back-biting (" Mayor Demings wary of Universal’s SunRail expansion plan, cites ‘lack of transparency’ ," Mass Transit Magazine ).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
From the article: Surveying the 30-plus public gardens, arboretums, historical landscapes, and support groups that comprise Greater Philadelphia Gardens, consulting firm Econsult Solutions added up the digits and found an economic impact of $256 million a year, a big boon for the tourism industry. s Black arts scene ," Post ).
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