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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.

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Welcome Your Advice on the Second Edition!

Human Transit

A lot has obviously happened in the history of public transit since book came out in 2011, including real things like the pandemic, unreal things like the hyperloop , and some things that are real but overhyped, like microtransit. This chapter explains the idea of access and is mostly content from this article. Against Specialization.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This Seattle Times article, " Is West Seattle the rock ā€™nā€™ roll capital of Seattle? ," illustrates those ideas--record stores, clubs, artists living there, record labels, the KEXP-FM rock radio station, practice spaces, recording studios, music education programs in Seattle Public Schools, etc., Kylie Cooper / The Seattle Times).

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Great Smoky Mountains Host Citizen Observers

GovLoop

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

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How to Lay a Solid Foundation for Modernizations

GovLoop

Since the cloud-first policy came out in 2011, the federal government has pushed for the use of cloud technologies as a foundation to IT modernization. This article is an excerpt from GovLoopā€™s guide entitled ā€œ Your Guide to Becoming an Adaptive Agency.ā€. But cloud alone is not a silver bullet. Download the guide. Favorite.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Homeowners have long outspent renters in Torontoā€™s census metropolitan area; a decade ago, their average bills were $1,516 per month versus tenantsā€™ $1,043. per cent more than tenants in 2011, it fell to 38.84 That trend is still visible in areas like Torontoā€™s Little Italy, or a large swath of southwest Brampton.

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School closure and consolidation planning needs to focus on integration planning at the outset as a separate process

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Of course such practice is complicated by politics, but also labor contracts with teachers and other personnel, and that sense of winners and losers, In the article, they really tried to move away from the idea of winning and losing.

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