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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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2023 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. I should go by this place more often, it’s such a nice library.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Although the disaster of 6 th February 2023 produced, in fact, stronger shaking than this, it should not have caused 5,500 large buildings to collapse. Buildings damages after Elazığ, Turkey earthquake on January 24, 2020. Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices.

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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 2011-2015 and 0.09 for 2016-2020. We focus on PM2.5,

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. Lee statue with a revisionist exhibit placed around it (" Monuments, historiography, and change ," 2020). The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ). And there were alternatives.

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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

Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. Lee statue with a revisionist exhibit placed around it (" Monuments, historiography, and change ," 2020). The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ). And there were alternatives.