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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It opened in 2001 and was completed in 2011, serving Hudson County only, and a recent proposal to finally extend it to Bergen has been further delayed (" Three decades later, the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line still has no Bergen spur. Another one is the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, which doesn't include Bergen County.

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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). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. Davis, John E.

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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. Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI). While somewhat dated, it nonetheless highlights the fact rural areas in North Carolina have been losing grocery stores over time. By 2016, it had lost that store.

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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." The program gives guests at roughly 70 Seattle hotels a free pass to 60-plus shows throughout the month of November.

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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

I’m humbled to share that since 2011, AWS has invested ¥1.35 In 2022, we invested ¥348 billion in capital and operational investments in our data centers in Japan. During 2011-2022, the investment in our AWS Regions in Japan resulted in ¥1.31 During 2011-2022, the investment in our AWS Regions in Japan resulted in ¥1.31

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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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