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Mapping CED Progress…and Struggle: The 2024 NC County Tier Rankings

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The 2024 Tier Designations and the Data Behind Them The N.C. Department of Commerce recently released an excellent short report with the 2024 county tier designations and the complete data used for the designation process. What is the Tier system used for? Where Are We Now?

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

CMPO’s 2024 Safety Summit will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post And because we don't provide actionable information and the structures to address the problem. in the Community Room of the Logan Library on May 16.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

A Library Writer's Blog

Nicole has been adjunct faculty with the UArizona iSchool since 2015, and as of 2021 is working toward a PhD in the same program. For more guidance, please see the journal’s Focus and Scope. Nicole Pagowsky is Curriculum & Pedagogy Librarian at The University of Arizona Libraries.

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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

They are looking to improve transit but haven't had a lot of success--failed tax referenda in 2020 and 2022 with another possible attempt for 2024, and there is back-biting (" Mayor Demings wary of Universal’s SunRail expansion plan, cites ‘lack of transparency’ ," Mass Transit Magazine ).

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Office vacancy rates downtown have crept up to a record high of at least 21 percent so far in the first quarter of fiscal 2024, according to data provided by the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID). the natural environment (open space, rivers, tree cover, watershed, etc.), into a global learning hub.”.

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Transit safety and security: Broken Windows theory and reality | and the state of transit safety today

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

By spring 2024, the first four stations should be complete. Also see " Criminology and the Fundamental Attribution Error ," a speech by Ronald Clarke on the acceptance of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2015). Louis article (paragraphs reordered): Every aspect of operations was reexamined with an eye toward keeping passengers safe.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. In response, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities attempted to suppress certain forms of expression (" After outcry, D.C. commission backs down on censoring art ," Washington Post ). Park system versus a particular park.