Librarian.net

JANUARY 2, 2023

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds.

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Librarian.net

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2024

I've written about DC's waste practices for years (" More on zero waste practice and DC ," 2015). It's important, but hard to do at scale when you only focus on food waste. It's boutique, not substantive. There's a lot more that can be diverted than recycling and yard waste. But yard waste is a huge component of the waste stream.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2024

. -- " Predictable outcome: people want to make a temporary park permanent as a foil to development ," 2015 -- " Be careful when you create "temporary park uses" on sites slated for development, because people will end up advocating against development ," 2018 According to DCist, the local courts just rejected an appeal aimed at stopping the conversion (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown revitalization: the Portland State story and more ," 2014 -- " Better2016 (..)

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The Lowe Down

MAY 12, 2023

Between 1972 and 2018, the number of large wildfires in California increased by 784 percent, and the area burned increased by more than 1,200 percent (Environmental Market Solutions Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara). in 2011-2015 and 0.09 in the period 2006-2010. As the average air quality in 2006-2010 is 10.95, this is roughly a 1.4

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

. -- " Another example of the need for more formal and open capital budgeting planning practices (in DC) ," 2019 -- " Capital/civic asset planning, budgeting and management processes ," 2015 -- " The FBI Building as another example of 'I told you so' ," 2015 -- " Municipal Natural Assets Planning Initiative, British Columbia ," 2018 Reading Jumping (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

And in " Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda " (2015), I suggest more tools for ward-specific oversight. I've written about this over the years, " Continued musing on restructuring DC's City Council (mostly) " (2013), is probably the most complete summation of recommended changes.

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GovCast

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Sept 17, 2018 | This fourth episode features Ashley Mahan, the General Services Administration’s first evangelist for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. She came to GSA in 2015 to stand up her role and help agencies understand FedRAMP — but she doesn’t have an educational background in IT.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

But in 2015, VA set up the Veterans Experience Office to begin to address the way veterans’ needs were met. In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. Agencies had their rules, and constituents had to navigate them to get the services they needed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 4, 2022

While being over the river is cool, you'll have to make an effort to get to the Park. | Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 -- " Downtown Edmonton cultural facilities development as an example of "Transformational Projects Action Planning" ," 2018. It's next to a freeway.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it.

2008 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

. -- " 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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Flickr photo.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Some schools have invested in nearby commercial districts, like Catholic University mentioned above. The University of Connecticut (" UConn Decides to Build Its Own College Town ," New York Times ) and University of Maryland are trying to create town centers which otherwise don't exist.

Economic Development 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Elizabeths campus ," 2018 Controversially, because the Park Service has more golf courses than demand, the Langston Golf Course could be redeveloped. This is worth $20 million per year off football based on a study for the Buffalo Bills, it could be more for other sports because of more events. Giants fans leave the MUNI headed for the park.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In terms of overall waste reduction planning, it's essential to include all properties in a jurisdiction within planning (" More on zero waste practice (and DC) ," 2015). WRT solid waste and recycling it's pretty much the same. The city is responsible for certain types of recycling.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

MARCH 18, 2022

2018, 56 L. 2015) (per curiam); Schutt v. . § 1983, alleging Mays unlawfully searched their home and seized their dogs in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the City was liable under Monell v. Dep't of Soc. 658, 694, 98 S. 2d 611 (1978).” The Monell claim was dismissed. Lewis , No.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," 2018 As urban neighborhoods become more desirable at the scale of the metropolitan residential choice landscape , prices will go up, and people who had been able to afford to live there will be outbid.

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A Library Writer's Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Nicholson, of The Politics of Theory in the Practice of Critical Librarianship (2018), and of Exploring Inclusive & Equitable Pedagogies: Creating Space for All Learners from ACRL Press. Nicole has been adjunct faculty with the UArizona iSchool since 2015, and as of 2021 is working toward a PhD in the same program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It's also a failure of elected officials to not see themselves as "asset managers" and "risk managers." -- " Town-city management: "We are all asset managers now" ," 2015 -- " Municipal Natural Assets Planning Initiative, British Columbia ," 2018 What's up? Performance dashboards. I've been thinking about them a lot lately.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

. = Also see for discussion of robust trail planning: -- " Comments on the Central Avenue Connector Trail concept (Prince George's County, Maryland ," 2015 And a framework for sustainable mobility planning: -- " Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework ," 2018.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework "). 15 years ago I first wrote that WMATA needed to rebuild the regional consensus about the value of transit: -- " St. It's about speed versus access.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 17, 2024

A Floodlight review of the content since the utility founded the Alabama News Center in 2015 shows it publishes overwhelmingly positive stories about the power company. He's already criticized the current paper (" New Baltimore Sun owner insults staff, says paper should mimic Fox45 ," Baltimore Banner).

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GovLoop

JULY 3, 2023

MCE is designed to help users identify underserved communities and relies on four main datasets: Select demographic and socioeconomic statistics from the 2015-19 American Community Survey (ACS), which helps determine how $675 billion in federal and state funds get distributed each year.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

After a series of violent crimes, leaders here took decisive action starting in 2018. Also see " Criminology and the Fundamental Attribution Error ," a speech by Ronald Clarke on the acceptance of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2015). Liverpool Echo photo. They zeroed in on one element above all else: rider safety. Other options.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 6, 2022

percent of the REOMatch properties were owner-occupied as of 2018, including 88 percent of the 2014 properties and 77 percent of the 2015 properties. By comparison, properties in these tracts that were sold through the retail channel ranged between 57 percent and 63 percent owner occupancy in 2018 for each year of sale, averaging 61.5

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. Another link. DC 295 and 695 scar the East of the River neighborhoods. Underground them.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

She could just do the stuff I suggested before she was elected: A Marshall Plan for East of the River -- " Social urbanism and equity planning as a way to address crime, violence, and persistent poverty: (not in) DC " (reports on a conversation from 2013 and the process after) and during her two terms of office: Transformational health care -- " A (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

From a PI blog entry in 2015 : The Navy Yard development is home to GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Outfitters, a Marriott and about 140 other companies. And as one of the early citizen directors of BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, used to say about planning for transit expansion--don't put it off, because construction costs only go up.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

And Maglev and the Central Business District, which is another inducement for a Height increase, one completely unseen by DC's planning and economic development officials (" DC, Transformational Projects Action Planning, and the Baltimore-Washington Maglev project ," 2021).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), a tech-for-good program launched in 2018, seeks to accelerate sustainability research and innovation by minimizing the cost and time required to acquire and analyze large sustainability datasets. ASDI data catalog offers open and no cost data in the cloud.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

Krimgold (eds) 2015. doi: 10.1108/DPM-08-2018-0263 The barriers to environmental sustainability in post-disaster settings: a case study of transitional shelter implementation in Haiti. Disasters 38(S1): S25-S49. [iv] iv] Davis, Ian 1978. Shelter After Disaster. Oxford Polytechnic Press, Oxford, 127 pp. [v] v] Davis, I., Thompson and F.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

34] The CCF was later used, in 2018, as the basis for an initial proposal for a formal regulatory capital requirement, which included going out for public comment. 35] For full disclosure, I was a major participant in its development, especially in the earlier years of 2014 and 2015, and so am speaking from first-hand observation. [36]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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