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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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Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

We have car cities. -- " Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland) ," 2023 -- " Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ," 2020 -- " Urban decay and sprawl: one community's gain at the expense of another's ," 2011 -- " A brief lesson in "incentivizing" supermarkets and department stores ," 2007 (..)

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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. Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices. the 'violent' level. [2] Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 29(1): 1-9.

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Welcome Your Advice on the Second Edition!

Human Transit

So I’ve just signed a deal with Island Press to do a second edition of Human Transit , expected out near the end of 2023.

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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

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs [link] accessed via [link] Accessed July 18, 2023. In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. Source: Wikimedia Creative Commons, Accessed July 18, 2023. Main Street, Mebane, N.C. Original image from Carol M.

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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

I've written about relocation of DC government agencies over the years as a misguided economic development strategy (" The Reeves Center Myth Revisited ," 2011, " Office Buildings Won't Save Anacostia ," 2005).

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