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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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Park system ratings for 2023 | Trust for Public Land ParkScore® rating system

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I have been remiss in writing about the 2023 release of the Trust for Public Land national ratings of park systems, called ParkScore®. -- " How Does Your City’s ParkScore® Rating Stack Up? ," TPL, 2023 In the past I've had issues with it, because DC is always rated highly--this year its #1--but the reality is that 80% of "DC's" parks are run by the (..)

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Those are walking cities. For the most part we don't have walking cities in the US.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since the database opened in 2012, more than 30,000 researchers from 90 countries have registered to use UK Biobank. New findings continue to come thick and fast—there were more than 3,000 published reports in 2023. So far, there have been more than 10,000 scientific publications based on researchers’ discoveries using UK Biobank data.

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Disorder | Fare evaders at Columbia Heights Metrorail Station, Washington, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the DOJ paper: The research produced an alternative interpretation of the link between disorder and crime, one that sees many elements of disorder as part and parcel of crime itself.

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How the Tri-COG Land Bank is Transforming Vacant Properties in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

By: Liz Kozub I got my start in transforming vacant properties in 2012 as an intern for the City of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a dense community of just over 2,000 residents with tremendous community pride. I went house-to-house with a clipboard documenting the conditions of vacant properties that dotted its beautiful brick streets.