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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways. Other cities have had mixed to negative results from similar initiatives.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018).

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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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Smaller cities lose out when it comes to business consolidation and headquarters relocation: WInston-Salem, North Carolina

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And while I haven't written about it, how quantum technological change within an industry can change its location patterns.

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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Grand Opening for New Denver Union Station Bus Concourse, Designed by SOM ," SOM press release, 2014 When Greyhound was last up for sale, I suggested that Amtrak buy it (" Two train/regional transit ideas: Part 1 | Amtrak should acquire Greyhound ," 2021). Although this rendering is more lively than the actual.

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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

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St.

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OpenFold, OpenAlex catalog of scholarly publications, and Capella Space satellite data: The latest open data on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

OpenFold, an Open Molecular Science Foundation project driven by a private-public consortium including Columbia University, Arzeda, and Cyrus Biotechnology, was developed as a trainable, fully open source improvement on AlphaFold2 , which disrupted the protein structure prediction space with its debut in 2021.