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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The key is to constantly be focused and planning and forward looking. -- " HBCUs and the city: Relocating Cheyney University to Philadelphia? ," 2021 -- " Howard University announces wide ranging building program ," 2022 (Note, not saying HU is forward thinking. They've had a lot of problems)

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

A list of the full citations of the articles referenced can be found at the end of this post. Meehan, 2014). A few local governments have granted eminent domain takings power to CLT partners to acquire dilapidated adjacent land (Meehan 2014). 3 (2019): 795-817. Why are CLTs a useful tool? Antipode 51, no.

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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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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: One study of Philadelphiaā€™s Basic Systems Repair Program found that when even one home on a block received repairs, there was a 21.9% decrease in homicide rates.

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Revisiting New Carrollton and the opportunity of transit oriented development: New train hall to be built at transit hub

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.) And it is a part of #12 in the action points list in the 2014 piece. I hope they read it.)

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Kunkel, director of Temple Universityā€™s Sport Industry Research Center , is referring to the economic impact enjoyed by hosts of whatā€™s evolved into a three-day-long basketball bacchanal that briefly transforms the cities it touches, and which happens to be coming to Salt Lake City next month.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019). and other cities take notice ," Seattle Times ).

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