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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 (..)

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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

In Brooklyn and parts of Queens, rent is at least 10 to 15 percent higher than it was in March 2020.) But one group has managed to hold off the forces of gentrification — and keep growing — for almost two decades. Suitable spaces are passed down, sublet, shared in secret.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," 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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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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 ).

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The Guardian , 5 May 2020.

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Eviction practices across subsidized housing in New York State

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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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