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Economic impact of big name concert tours: Taylor Swift in Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to the urbanism blog Billy Penn (" Taylor Swift’s tour stop was a boom weekend for Philly, with hotel rooms nearly selling out — at $450 a night "), Taylor Swift's concert contributed to a hotel booking rate of over 90% in Philadelphia's Center City, and a significant increase in pricing.

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October 2016 | Studying Networks Over Time, By H. Brinton Milward

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

This blog post is an attempt to begin a dialogue among public management researchers about how we might begin to design research that would capture the life-cycle of a network using methods that allow the researcher to capture exit and entry of organizations, new governance schemes, and shifts in the task or purpose of the network over time.

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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

Almost 15 years ago, a brief CED blog post highlighted several resources for supporting or attracting local grocery stores, especially ones in rural areas. In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. By 2016, it had lost that store. Source: Library of Congress – U.S.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It fell into the same trap ," Washington Post ), reminds me that some of my earliest substantive blog writings concern WMATA and the Silver Line. But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011).

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." There aren't many free air pumps or bike stands. I don't know if some apartment buildings have high quality bike parking.

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Call for Chapters: Student Success Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on an Evolving Profession (working title) #ACRL

A Library Writer's Blog

She received her MLIS from North Carolina Central University in 2016 and her BA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of North Carolina Asheville in 2011.

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Powering digital transformation in Canada: AWS Summit Ottawa keynote recap

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since our launch here in 2016, we’ve invested $1.4B SSC was created in 2011 to transform how the government manages and secures its IT infrastructure. Subscribe to the AWS Public Sector Blog newsletter to get the latest in AWS tools, solutions, and innovations from the public sector delivered to your inbox, or contact us.