Remove 2016 Remove 2020 Remove 2021 Remove 2023
article thumbnail

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

2023 52
article thumbnail

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.

2023 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

2016 52
article thumbnail

Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " 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 (..)

2016 52
article thumbnail

Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Restaurants are still closing in 2023. The first time I wrote this post was in 2016, but I've never done it early enough in the month, when you can actually procure an item in time, without paying for expedited shipping. Photo: Jonathan Wiggs, Boston Globe. Inflation along with rising wage rates have also affected restaurants.

article thumbnail

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

article thumbnail

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. This clear policy standard for setting the average G-fee was, however, thrown into some uncertainty in 2020. percent to 0.49

2008 52