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UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

This led to the establishment and launch in 2021 of the secure, cloud-based UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform (RAP) , which is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the Europe (London) Region and enabled by DNAnexus. Since the database opened in 2012, more than 30,000 researchers from 90 countries have registered to use UK Biobank.

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Partly what got me thinking about city-county consolidation--places like Indianapolis (1970), Knoxville, Macon-Bibb County, Georgia (2012), and what SF and Philadelphia did in the 1800s--was seeing mention of a Brookings Institution report about Pennsylvania c. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021).

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 -- " Downtown Edmonton cultural facilities development as an example of "Transformational Projects Action Planning" ," 2018. The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. "

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The review highlights how new research developments can facilitate a shift towards "upstream," or preventative, homelessness interventions, while making necessary "downstream" emergency services more equitable and effective. 2021 ; Gubits et al. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). Coordination challenges between agencies (e.g.,

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Madison Wisconsin should be rethinking its pedestrian "district"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Plans for a redesign of the State Street commercial corridor in downtown Ann Arbor as presented to the city's Transportation Commission by the Downtown Development Authority and SmithGroup in January 2022. Exhibition Road in London is much better design-wise ( Guardian review , 2012). But I suppose it is a start.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

an urban design dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. I argue that a lot of urban policy was developed when cities where losing population and stabilization was the primary goal, staunching outmigration. historic architecture 2.

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