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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

A list of the full citations of the articles referenced can be found at the end of this post. CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). It’s important to be strategic to promote relationship synergy and maximize benefits for both parties (White 2011).

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: In a news release sent out Wednesday, officials said that the organizations’ Boards of Directors will meet on May 1 to start “months-long discussions about how to efficiently provide, fund, and govern public transit.” inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). This concept eludes almost everyone who writes about transit.

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

Article by Derik Suria & Meghna Pamula Air pollution is a serious public health concern. in the period 2006-2010. As the average air quality in 2006-2010 is 10.95, this is roughly a 1.4 in 2011-2015 and 0.09 Low-income communities are likely to be disproportionately affected by air pollution (Harvard study).

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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wrote about this in more depth in " 6Ps and cultural planning and the failure to create a network of African American historic sites across the DMV " (2016) in response to articles spurred by the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. In North America, Doors Open Toronto is probably the biggest.

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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Libraries and librarians play such a crucial role in the well-being of our communities, and the Delaware public libraries are no exception. The Drumbrae Library in Scotland includes a day care facility (" Work begins on Drumbrae's new library, day care centre and youth cafe ," Guardian, 2011). Libros Book Club.

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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

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There is no such thing as societeigh", she said in that false plummy, slightly hectoring, distinctly overbearing voice (Tice 2010). Rioting and looting occurred in London in 2011 and in Concepcion, Chile, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami. Socialist (25 November 2010), p. Kawachi, S. Takao and S.V.

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