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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 19, 2023
The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
But that message isn’t getting through to our local government. The data reflect what we already know: When people’s basic need for a safe, stable home is met, it decreases violence in our neighborhoods. As we talked to close to 200 Grays Ferry residents, the stories poured in.
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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
JULY 18, 2023
Here in North Carolina, the North Carolina Healthy Food Retail Task Force found “the uneven distribution of supermarkets in North Carolina leaves a disproportionate number of under-resourced people without access to nutritious food” in its 2019 report , Supporting Healthy Food Access in North Carolina. By 2016, it had lost that store.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
Michael Lewis has a good book, The Fifth Risk , on the investment by the federal government in the development of science and technology, like weather prediction systems and the work of federal laboratories. There are probably some I've missed. OTOH, there is also the story of Kariko Katalin at the University of Pennsylvania.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. Government has a bias for inaction. There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter. I started writing a response in the comments, but it was too long.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] Q1: What problem was the government trying to solve when it placed the two GSEs into conservatorship?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” But during his decade-plus as King County executive, lifelong West Seattleite Dow Constantine has been the local music and arts community’s biggest champion in local government.
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