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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. My plan was to read LESS this year than last year and I did a good job. One hundred and fourteen books. I was busier, happier. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. average read per month: 9.5

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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

Entries more than doubled from the inaugural 2022 edition, with 334 nominations from 63 countries across six continents. This blog post highlights the 2023 awardees. In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs.

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2023 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. I should go by this place more often, it’s such a nice library.

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Tackling New York City’s Housing Crisis is a ‘Shared Responsibility’

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

percent of the city’s population, the Furman Center found in its 2022 State of City report. In some of these low-density neighborhoods, no new affordable housing has been permitted since 2015. The city’s lowest-density community districts take up 44.7 percent of the total land across the five boroughs but contain just 28.4

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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

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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Defining Data Equity

GovLoop

Food Pantry Mapping in South Carolina The state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and Clemson University’s College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences launched in 2022 an interactive ArcGIS-powered map that shows where people in need can get assistance. The university maintains the map.

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Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

When the land bank found the perfect property—a house at 13611 Kinsman Road—they negotiated to release a collateral lien on the house, rehabilitated it, and gifted the home to Gardner and the CCCC in 2015 to serve as their permanent headquarters. In 2022, Crooked Branch Farm had the honor of being named one of the U.S.

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