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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many small towns have decent quality of life because of the presence of small colleges, their economic and social capital impact, the offering of special events that are attractors, etc. For example, Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia has a summer theater festival. Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

If it seems like we are experiencing more community disasters and traumatic events than ever before, it is probably because we are. Natural and man-made disasters and other adverse events put enormous strain on communities. Natural and man-made disasters and other adverse events put enormous strain on communities.

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Your Patrons Are Not Goldfish! The Powerful, Scientifically Proven Reason Why Your Library Should Aim To Hold the Sustained Attention of Your Community

Super Library Marketing

In 2015, large news organizations, including Time , The New York Times , and The Telegraph reported a single, mind-blowing finding from a new study by Microsoft. A BBC reporter investigated the origin of the goldfish statistic in 2017. She could do this for hours. It would have been creepy had she not been a fish.

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC streetcar advocates are holding a community event to advocate for expansion of the streetcar to Ward 7, which DC Council recently defunded. Nope, in 2015, plans to move forward were scuttled, seemingly forever (" Virginia Beach was right to reject light rail extension ," Norfolk Virginian-Pilot ).

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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " All the talk of e-government, digital government, and open source government is really about employing the design method ," 2012 -- " Creating the right program vs. the hype of big data ," 2013 -- " Does the focus on big data mean we miss the opportunity for better use of "little data" ," 2015 -- " For a lot of "urban problems" the issue isn't (..)

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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

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza.