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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. Other cities have had mixed to negative results from similar initiatives.

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Big omission in blog series on advance hospital/health and wellness planning, public health planning: addiction services

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Elizabeths campus " -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program " -- " Revisiting East of the River medical care: United Medical Center " -- " Update on DC's plans to build a new United Medical Center ," 2018 -- " A glaring illustration of the need for comprehensive health and wellness planning in DC: Providence Hospital (..)

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018).

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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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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2019, AWS launched the AWS Equity Equivalent Investment Program (EEIP) in South Africa , to pursue its mission to invest over $20 million (ZAR 365 million) in developing 100% black-owned small information and communications technology (ICT) and digital economy businesses in the country through December 2026.

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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. European Space Agency WorldCover 2021 & 2020 maps managed by Vito. 10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class).

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How Can the Academic Community Recover from the Impact of COVID-19

Grant Training Center

Northwestern University led study found that although researchers’ productivity levels have mostly returned to pre-pandemic highs, scientists who did not pursue COVID-19 related research initiated 36% fewer new projects in 2021 compared to 2019. The results of the survey were as follows: Stress Levels. Extremely. Not at all.

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