A Library Writer's Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

CFP URL: [link] CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction 2023-10-16 The concept of extraction (or extractivism) has been used in myriad disciplines — geography, international relations, environment, economics — often to describe social formations around natural resource management.

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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.

Transportation 52

Transportation 2017 2018 2019 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

By spring 2024, the first four stations should be complete. 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.

Security 52

Security Public Safety Implementation 2018 52

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. For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Another link. Underground them.

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Parks And Recreation 2014 Education Development 52