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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is a letter to the editor in the Post " Save an endangered species: The American department store ," responding to the article " Macy's and other department stores are an endangered species ," opining about the difference between department stores in European cities like London and Paris. It completely misses the point.

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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. This chapter explains the idea of access and is mostly content from this article. A review of the demand response service options, largely from this article. The Wall Around Your Life.

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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. A short bibliography of sources that deal with common faults in Turkish R/C construction is appended at the end of this article. the 'violent' level. [2]

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Great Smoky Mountains Host Citizen Observers

GovLoop

“INaturalist usage in the Smokies has skyrocketed from just four users in 2011, to 3,800 in 2020, to now more than 7,100 users,” said Will Kuhn, DLiA’s Director of Science and Research, in an interview last September. “We This article appears in our guide, “ Decision Intelligence: New Possibilities for Data-Based Decision-Making.”

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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Libraries and librarians play such a crucial role in the well-being of our communities, and the Delaware public libraries are no exception. The Drumbrae Library in Scotland includes a day care facility (" Work begins on Drumbrae's new library, day care centre and youth cafe ," Guardian, 2011). Libros Book Club.

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

Article by Derik Suria & Meghna Pamula Air pollution is a serious public health concern. 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).

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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

From the article: Administration officials see the influx of workers as an economic boost and part of a broader effort to scale up critical health infrastructure in a place where life expectancy and health outcomes lag behind neighborhoods to the west.

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