Mass Attacks in Public Spaces, 2016-2020
Disaster Zone blog
JANUARY 25, 2023
Compiled by the Department of Homeland Security
Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 10, 2024
For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.
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Librarian.net
JANUARY 5, 2024
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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2023 reading list and commentary
Librarian.net
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.
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Economic impact of big name concert tours: Taylor Swift in Philadelphia
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 22, 2023
. == More entries about music performance as an element of cultural planning -- " Song remains the same ," 2011 -- " Ground up (guerrilla) art #2: community halls and music (among other things) ," 2011 -- " Leveraging music for cultural and economic development: part one, opera ," 2017 -- " Leveraging music as cultural heritage for economic development: (..)
2022 in Libraries
Librarian.net
JANUARY 2, 2023
Previous years: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Fairlee (1) – I was in town for a conference and stopped by. Hartness/Randolph (1) – Stopped by when I was in a walki I miss this place.
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WMATA's latest bus improvement program
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 13, 2024
Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " Route 7 BRT proposal communicates the reality that the DC area doesn't adequately conduct transportation planning at the metropolitan-scale ," 2016 -- " Reviving DC area bus service: and a counterpoint to the recent Washington City Paper article ," 2019 From the article: With additional (..)
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The importance of chronicling presidential transitions
Partnership for Public Service
OCTOBER 12, 2022
The Partnership formally launched its Center for Presidential Transition in 2016, and since then, we have sought new ways to engage the public, presidential candidates and their teams about this critical but often taken-for-granted process. Wilson in affiliation with the Partnership, is now on sale.
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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)
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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
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
In Brooklyn and parts of Queens, rent is at least 10 to 15 percent higher than it was in March 2020.) In Manhattan, average rent prices have risen 15 percent from their levels just before the Covid-19 shutdown, and things aren’t much better in the other boroughs. (In Suitable spaces are passed down, sublet, shared in secret.
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2021 in Libraries
Librarian.net
JANUARY 1, 2022
Previous years: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Chelsea (23) – I was the W/Th librarian for a few months. Rochester (1) – stopped by to say hello before teaching some online classes.
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Voting and Campaign Transparency w/ Asm. Sabrina Cervantes
Policy Chats
MARCH 11, 2024
About Sabrina Cervantes : Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes was elected in November 2016 and represents California’s 58th Assembly District. In 2021, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted by a vote of 4 to 1 to adopt a Supervisorial district map for the 2020 round of redistricting that was really fraught with a lot of controversy.
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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities
The Lowe Down
MAY 12, 2023
California wildfires, 1980-2000 and 2001-2020 Source: California Fire Perimeters (1898-2020) dataset by Conservation Biology Institute. for 2016-2020. The 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise and claimed 85 lives, was one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires occurring in recent years.
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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
I wrote about this in more depth in " 6Ps and cultural planning and the failure to create a network of African American historic sites across the DMV " (2016) in response to articles spurred by the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Asm. Sabrina Cervantes: Voting and Campaign Transparency
Policy Chats
MARCH 11, 2024
About Sabrina Cervantes : Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes was elected in November 2016 and represents California’s 58th Assembly District. In 2021, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted by a vote of 4 to 1 to adopt a Supervisorial district map for the 2020 round of redistricting that was really fraught with a lot of controversy.
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2022 reading list and commentary
Librarian.net
JANUARY 2, 2023
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.
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2021 reading list and commentary
Librarian.net
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.
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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed
NLRG (National Legal Research Group)
MARCH 18, 2022
2016); Saathoff v. 2016); Maldonado v. 6:19-CV-6780 EAW, 2020 WL 7047493, at *4 (W.D.N.Y. 30, 2020); Strong v. 17-CV-6183-FPG, 2020 WL 1445877, at *4 (W.D.N.Y. Dempsey , 2020 WL 7047493, at *4 (quoting Azurdia v. Muhlenberg Twp. , 3d 205, 212 (3d Cir. See Mayfield v. Bethards , 826 F.3d 3d 1252 (10th Cir.
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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
I have a bunch of entries on radio: -- " Local music used to define communities: today with radio chains and national music distribution systems, not so much ," 2021 -- " Culture planning and radio: local music, local content vs. delivery nodes for a national network ," 2019 -- " Thinking anew about supporting community radio ," 2019 -- " Revisiting (..)
2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
Doubling down on place values ," 2022 -- " From more space to socially distance to a systematic program for pedestrian districts (Park City (Utah) Main Street Car Free on Sundays) ," 2020 -- " Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016 -- " Daypart and age-group planning in mixed use (..)
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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 9, 2023
And I don't see things changing. Note that William Bratton's latest book is very good (" Bill Bratton Explains His Ideas of Good Policing ," New York Times ).
H Street NE nightlife district, failing?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
," 2013 -- " DC and streetcars #4: from the standpoint of stoking real estate development, the line is incredibly successful and it isn't even in service yet, and now that development is extending eastward past 15th Street ," 2015 -- " The streetcar and the new potential for H Street retail revitalization ," 2016 this is an important piece.
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How SkillsFuture Singapore provides access to skills training resources and more with AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), a statutory board under the Ministry of Education (MOE), was formed in 2016 to promote a culture of lifelong learning in Singapore and strengthen the country’s ecosystem of industry-relevant training and adult education. How SkillsFuture Singapore uses AWS to scale and more.
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Eviction practices across subsidized housing in New York State
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JANUARY 13, 2023
The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). 2020; Preston & Reina, 2021) compared public housing authorities to private landlords in individual markets. One study (Gromis et al.,
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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020). This comes up in a letter to the editor to the Post (" Why I won’t take the Silver Line to Dulles ").
State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The Guardian , 5 May 2020. Murray 2020. The Guardian , 25 August 2020 - and subsequent updates. Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. So where are its emergency planners? Murphy, S.,
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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
Doubling down on place values ," 2022 -- " From more space to socially distance to a systematic program for pedestrian districts (Park City (Utah) Main Street Car Free on Sundays) ," 2020 -- " Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016 -- " Daypart and age-group planning in mixed use (..)
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How Taylor Swift, Pedro Pascal, and Other Trends Led a Library Social Media Marketer to TikTok Success
Super Library Marketing
AUGUST 20, 2023
I was promoted to Circulation Supervisor at a branch in 2016,” says Paul. During the height of Covid in 2020, physical circulation was slow, and I asked to assist the Marketing department with Facebook and Instagram. During the spring of his first year, he got a job as a circulation aide at the Milwaukee Public Library. “I
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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
MARCH 20, 2023
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 ).
Bulgarian EdTech Shkolo uses AWS to reduce bureaucracy for administrators
AWS Public Sector Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Established in 2016, Shkolo offers software solutions for schools to optimize back-end administrative processes, allow parents to track their students’ achievements and make appointments with teachers, gamify how students can rate their teachers and assignments to promote engagement in school, and more.
Does Mail-in Voting Actually Increase Election Participation?
The Lowe Down
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
The 2020 United States presidential election saw a major increase in mail-in voting as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Passed by the state senate in 2016, the VCA provides a model for counties of practices including mailing every registered voter a ballot which can be cast at any vote center within their county.
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Data Update: Analysis Of Renters At Risk As Eviction Moratorium Expires
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JANUARY 15, 2022
Rather, since the New York City Housing Court began to accept new eviction filings again on June 20, 2020, certain types of cases moved forward despite a complex intersection of Local, State, and Federal protections. Since March 17, 2020 (through the most recent data update of January 9, 2022) there have been 78,652 new eviction filings.
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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). By comparison, median household income was rising from 2016 through 2020 by only 2.6 This is a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.98
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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 9, 2022
The kinds of initiatives that helped cities revived need to be reassessed and further strengthened and extended and revised for today's circumstances Along these lines, at the beginning of the pandemic, I wrote this piece, " From more space to socially distance to a systematic program for pedestrian districts (Park City (Utah) Main Street Car Free (..)
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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Unkempt areas aren't places where people want to live (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016). People don't want to live in fear. cleanliness. Center cities can be pretty dirty. schools (and daycare). are topics I've blogged about over the years.
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
JANUARY 18, 2023
Climate and weather: A Global Drought and Flood Catalogue from 1950 to 2016 from National University of Singapore. European Space Agency WorldCover 2021 & 2020 maps managed by Vito. Astronomy: Europa Controlled Observations from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Europa Controlled Observation Mosaics from NASA.
FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?
NLRG (National Legal Research Group)
OCTOBER 8, 2020
The provision also sets a two-year statute of limitations except for 2017 injuries that are filed in 2020. On March 25, 2020, the Supreme Court left questions unanswered as it declined to hear the writ of certiorari filed by the Estate of Raheel Siddiqui in Siddiqui v. 2512 (2020), appealed from Siddiqui v. App'x 484 (6th Cir.
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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 2, 2023
Since 2016, the state has taken steps to facilitate the creation of accessory dwelling units , small apartments in garages or basements or backyards, by reducing regulations of the size and shape of the units and limiting local governments’ ability to require the units to come with a parking spot, among other changes. Kim, UC Irvine.
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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
JANUARY 18, 2024
cuts speed limit to 20 mph to curb pedestrian deaths: a step forward but not enough | New thoughts on a comprehensive Vision Zero agenda ," 2020 In " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC " (2021) I made these points: 1. How to measure and benchmark traffic deaths? The issues are unchanging. Government has a bias for inaction.
The state of the residential real estate market
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 2, 2022
aren't selling very quickly It does get back to understanding the factors that support long term value, which I've written about in: -- " The eight components of housing value ," (2016) -- " Revisiting factors influencing housing purchase ," (2021) Decline in attractiveness of center city location with shift to work from home.
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Did American Investors Believe Evergrande would be China’s Lehman Moment?
The Lowe Down
DECEMBER 22, 2022
In 2020, Premier Xi Jinping implemented the “three red lines” policy to crack down on highly leveraged real estate firms. Since 2016, there has been a significant increase in the number of American and European investments into Chinese securities, totaling $1.1 trillion in the summer of 2021 alone.
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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 11, 2024
Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020). Another related concept is intra-district versus inter-district transit (" Making the case for intra-city (vs. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). This concept eludes almost everyone who writes about transit. It's about speed versus access.
Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 11, 2022
And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."
Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
2] Also, See Fannie Mae, “Manufactured Housing Landscape 2020,”( [link] ). million MH units (meaning structures) in 2020, 4.8 3] Focusing on owner-occupied housing, house prices have increased faster than wages from 2016 (when they reached their pre-2008 peak level) through early 2020, reducing affordability.
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