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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

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Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 -- " Downtown Edmonton cultural facilities development as an example of "Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2018

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Economic impact of big name concert tours: Taylor Swift in Philadelphia

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In line before the concert, " Taylor Swift and 69,000 of Her Closest Friends Descend on Philadelphia ," Philadelphia Magazine.

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

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Illinois; Tennessee; Rosslyn + "The Airport Access Factor" ," 2017 Education. International companies like Caterpillar can't rely on a local airport for simplified connections. Same with firms in Winston-Salem. -- " Do tax incentives pay off?

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

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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

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10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class) is a global map of land use/land cover (LULC) derived from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery at 10m resolution for the years 2017-2021. Climate and weather: A Global Drought and Flood Catalogue from 1950 to 2016 from National University of Singapore.

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Accelerating economic research at UBC with high performance computing using RONIN and AWS

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When Leyton-Brown and Newman began research into the computationally complex auction theory behind the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction, their ML models required significantly more computing power than their on-premises infrastructure could provide.

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Linda Lenz, founding editor of Catalyst Chicago, dies at 77 | Technical assistance for local schools advocates

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The same organization that publishes CR published Catalyst , which ceased operation in 2016, after publishing for 26 years. Mostly the DC reform effort failed, but the Washington Post sure was all in. -- Fawning coverage of DC school "reform" doesn't push better practice forward ," 2017 Advocates need a solid narrative.