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No more housing filtration? (at least in big cities)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Toronto Star reports (" Curse of the renter: In some neighbourhoods, not owning a home now costs more than owning one ") that renters there are paying more for housing than housing owners in some parts of the city. per cent more than tenants in 2011, it fell to 38.84 per cent in 2016, and to 30.28 per cent in 2021.

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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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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

This correlation occurs because air quality is an amenity that is capitalized into housing prices; cleaner air is among the many goods purchased by more affluent households in California. in 2011-2015 and 0.09 for 2016-2020. in the period 2006-2010. As the average air quality in 2006-2010 is 10.95, this is roughly a 1.4

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

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Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

Drive 15 minutes southeast from the heart of downtown Cleveland and you’ll find an unexpected sight: a working urban farm, complete with a burgeoning fruit orchard, chicken coop, and hoop houses. The house is the “ de facto second, third, and fourth responder serving the impoverished residents of the Mt.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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