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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Meehan, 2014). CLTs can keep their units affordable rather than adapting to market prices.

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The site was originally approved for a mixed use development with 400+ apartments above, which would have generated more income, sales, and property tax revenues for the city. But with the recession, the developer wanted quick and easy money and sold the development rights to Walmart--a 75 year lease, with renewables.

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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I have written about this from time to time, including problems with the set up at DC's Union Station, by comparing it to Toronto and Montreal (" Union Station bus terminal, DC ," 2011). Great 1950s brochure on the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC. Flickr photo by Karen Yang (also see the brochure cover and back panel.)

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How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. Supporting rural grocery stores has been a target of federal funding through the USDA’s Healthy Foods Financing Initiative (HFFI), first authorized in 2014. Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI).

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters " ( Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4)," to music as a performing art in terms of developing "music as production" as opposed to "music as consumption." Owner Matt Vaughan founded West Seattle’s Easy Street Records during what he terms the “slacker era” of the late ’80s.

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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

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Who wants to hang out by a freeway?

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

Digital storytelling is exemplified by the development of empowering personal and community-based narratives through openly-available digital media technologies. For instance, how do the six frames of the ACRL Framework, and related knowledge practices and dispositions inform the development of well-researched digital narratives?

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