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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: THE TYPICAL TRAJECTORY for an urban arts community goes something like this: A couple of creative types set up shop in a neighborhood bypassed by development. Mycella Collective. The buildings might be run down, but rents are cheap, and more artists follow. Magic ensues for a few years.

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Smaller cities lose out when it comes to business consolidation and headquarters relocation: WInston-Salem, North Carolina

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Corporate headquarters or at least research and development for manufacturers--with Boeing being a big exception--tend to stay proximate to major manufacturing clusters. Illinois; Tennessee; Rosslyn + "The Airport Access Factor" ," 2017 Education. shifting supply chains and where added value is developed.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Mostly about urban universities, but the principles still apply to smaller towns. -- " 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 (..)

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"Buy the Mother F Building Already" is a series of entries about best practice and worst practice in buying, holding, and developing properties for arts and culture related uses. My lament was the lack of systematic, community-wide initiatives to buy, hold, develop and preserve properties for arts and culture related uses.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters " ( Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4)," to music as a performing art in terms of developing "music as production" as opposed to "music as consumption." Owner Matt Vaughan founded West Seattle’s Easy Street Records during what he terms the “slacker era” of the late ’80s.

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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS works with data providers to democratize access to data by making it available to the public for analysis on AWS; develop new cloud-native techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data; and encourage the development of communities that benefit from access to shared datasets. PALSAR-2 ScanSAR CARD4L (L2.2)

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

While restrictive zoning is not the only reason housing costs are high in the United States, it does play a major role in limiting housing development, especially in parts of the country with high paying jobs in fast-growing industries. But after the reforms were passed, the next planning cycle in 2021 saw the total jump to 2.5

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