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How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs [link] accessed via [link] Accessed July 18, 2023. Almost 15 years ago, a brief CED blog post highlighted several resources for supporting or attracting local grocery stores, especially ones in rural areas. Source: Library of Congress – U.S.

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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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The Future of Recycling Programs and the Role of Community Feedback

zencity

From 2014 to 2019 alone, the number of communities offering composting programs grew by 65 percent ! The program aims to be bag free by 2023, making it easier to recycle and to reduce recycling contamination which can cause certain items to be unrecyclable. Their “Is it recyclable?

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

million in total annual AWS run rate cost optimization by the end of 2023. Launching the CSP with AWS CSS worked closely with AWS from the outset of the CSP project launch in 2014. Since 2019, issued security volume has stayed high while service level performance has increased and AWS run costs have decreased.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

So a blog entry is better. see the discussion on transportation wrt Eastern Market, " Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market ," 2023). 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. Vision Zero.