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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

CAST currently supports another Tenderloin fixture, Luggage Store Gallery, through the same model, and is developing agreements with 12 more arts nonprofits in the Bay Area, eight of which are in San Francisco’s downtown core. Not all arts nonprofits have the funding for such a hefty purchase, and the model favors those with deep pockets.

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No more housing filtration? (at least in big cities)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

per cent in 2016, and to 30.28 per cent in 2021. per cent more than they did in 2016. From 2016 to 2021, renters’ average bills went up 48.2 Where owners in all areas spent 45.35 per cent more than tenants in 2011, it fell to 38.84 The average tenant in Canada last year paid 17.6 per cent over that period.

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago. But for $3.5

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Bok Building served as a model, the former South Philadelphia high school now home to a bounty of small businesses, nonprofits, and artists, attracting people from around the city to the spectacular views of its rooftop bar. Instead, people wanted to open its walls so pedestrians could more easily move between Chinatown and Market East.

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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

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Because that space doesn't exist in DC, either innovative uses don't develop -- such as the nonprofit advocacy sector, which as cheap spaces disappeared groups stopped being created counter to the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s -- or they develop in the suburbs. And separating the Yellow and Green Lines too.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

According to the United Nations (UN) 2022 Global Assessment Report on Climate Reduction , worldwide disasters will get worse if current trends continue. In February 2022, deadly floods and landslides ravaged Petrópolis, a city in southeastern Brazil in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Predicting the unexpected.