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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The key is to constantly be focused and planning and forward looking. -- " HBCUs and the city: Relocating Cheyney University to Philadelphia? ," 2021 -- " Howard University announces wide ranging building program ," 2022 (Note, not saying HU is forward thinking. They've had a lot of problems)

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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

AWS Public Sector Blog

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And while I haven't written about it, how quantum technological change within an industry can change its location patterns. For example, now that the auto industry is moving from gasoline engines to electric motors, the new firms and their suppliers are increasingly located outside of the Midwest.

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How SkillsFuture Singapore provides access to skills training resources and more with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

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.

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Orbital Sidekick uses AWS to monitor energy pipelines and reduce risks and emissions

AWS Public Sector Blog

In June 2021, the AWS Aerospace and Satellite team selected OSK as part of the four-week AWS Space Accelerator program to provide guidance on how best to make huge amounts of data about pipelines usable and actionable with cloud computing and analytics technologies.