Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

. -- " Black History Month and the New Jim Crow ," 2020 -- " Two ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month ," 2020 -- " African American History Month and Urban Planning ," 2019 National Archives photo of a pretty much empty bus during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Ferguson ," book review).

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Princeton Public Library

DECEMBER 6, 2019

As 2019 draws to a close, I find myself thinking about my reading goals for next year. Downtime is such a rare commodity that you want to spend it reading the books you know you’ll like — […]. When it comes to reading for pleasure, most people (including me) tend to stick to what they know.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

It's a very important book, about the recentralization of metropolitan areas focused on center city revival. Note that before the book, there was an article in Fortune Magazine , " Downtown is for people " ( pdf ). Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019.

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Policy Chats

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Her recent Discovery Early Career Researcher Award fellowship (DECRA 2019-2022) funded by the Australian Research Council explored mandatory childhood vaccination policies in Australia, Italy, France, and California. A/Prof Attwell is a global expert in vaccine hesitancy and vaccination policies for childhood and COVID-19 vaccines.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Readers have called our attention to the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem , which I haven't yet tracked down ("S," Seattle Times ). But a rural community in Michigan has defunded its library because it has "gay books" (" Only library in Michigan town to close after voters defund it for refusing to ban LGBTQ books ,").

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Policy Chats

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Her recent Discovery Early Career Researcher Award fellowship (DECRA 2019-2022) funded by the Australian Research Council explored mandatory childhood vaccination policies in Australia, Italy, France, and California. A/Prof Attwell is a global expert in vaccine hesitancy and vaccination policies for childhood and COVID-19 vaccines.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In August 2019, 23 local governments, from one end of Texas to another, were hit by ransomware. This article is an excerpt from GovLoop’s upcoming e-book entitled “ Stuck in Neutral: How to Jumpstart Change at Your Agency.” ” Sign up for the e-book. Have a Plan, and Practice. Favorite.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 9, 2023

. -- " Broken windows/collective efficacy: Baltimore; Newark; Grand Junction, Colorado; Pittsburgh; Albany " (2019) A lot of academics criticize it, but I think they are missing the point. 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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Human Transit

JANUARY 27, 2022

During my 2019 trip Juan Carlos set up a meeting with then-Minister of Transport & Telecommunications Gloria Hutt to talk about my work on access analysis. Fast forward to 2019. I had been booked as a speaker at the conference, but Juan Carlos asked if I would come anyway, and do some events around the edges of the crisis.

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Super Library Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

So if you were looking to promote your library’s reading recommendations, you may use phrases like “Best Books of All Time” in your email and in your blog posts to drive lots of traffic to your library’s website. #3: To demonstrate, I typed this sentence into the editor: Books help readers understand their place in the world.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A Harvard Business Review study conducted in 2019 revealed that women and men have different approaches to leadership. This is extremely important – whether you’re making your voice heard in blogs, books or by presenting at conferences. © Joseph Perone. Do you believe that women possess different skills to men? Don’t be shy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019). It dates to the 1980s.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Sir Oliver Letwin's excellent book Apocalypse How? Atlantic Books, London, 256 pp. Apocalypse How? Technology and the Threat of Disaster.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The theatre performances drew upon a rich heritage of books, studies, memoirs, plays and music that over the years has commemorated the Vajont tragedy. This was specifically designed to keep the memory alive and help people who are too young to have lived at the time of the disaster to know about it.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 16, 2021

The story of Okawa is movingly described in Richard Lloyd Parry's remarkable book Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan. In November 2019, on my second visit to Fukushima Dai'ichi, I stood in front of the wreckage of reactor no. The building is due to become a national monument. I was in a magnitude 6.8

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Attendance at Thursday night programs and networking events at Venture Care have drawn an average of 419 people this fall, up from353 in 2019. Good books on this are Cities Back from the Edge , The Living Downtown , and Changing Places. Some gatherings are larger now than in pre-pandemic times.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This short submission has been written by Martin Stewart-Weeks and is based, in large part, on ideas and insights presented in the book he co-wrote with Simon Cooper, published in July 2019 – Are We There Yet? The Digital Transformation of Government and the Public Sector in Australia (Longueville Media 2019). [1].

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Master Plan contract, 2019. Incorporate book and media related art, including projections? Maybe bike valet services? Obviously, I believe this should function at the metropolitan scale.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

A big element of the service is providing free books to children (" Clinic's reading room making a big difference for low-income kids ," KSL-TV) Some library systems have special health and wellness collections. Why not create one as part of a community-serving hospital?

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Super Library Marketing

JUNE 5, 2023

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library On a mild night in April 2019, I arrived at a steak restaurant in Schaumburg Township, Illinois to have dinner with a group of people I’d never met. “They had placed a Sorting Hat from Harry Potter on top of the platform where it scanned in the books.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

This included AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews, close engagement with enterprise support, run-book development, and technical account manager engagement to address any issues during the go-live process. Since 2019, issued security volume has stayed high while service level performance has increased and AWS run costs have decreased.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Illustration from The House Book by Keith DuQuette, showing the intensification of land use as you move from suburban areas to the center city. Where do I begin? This comes up because of the Chicago Sun-Times article, " City’s test of additional dwelling units finds most takers in gentrified wards." Nobody goes there anymore.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Michael Lewis has a good book, The Fifth Risk , on the investment by the federal government in the development of science and technology, like weather prediction systems and the work of federal laboratories. This is a pdf of the book.) Also see writings on innovation districts and quarters more generally. Pittsburgh is a great example.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 28, 2024

European and US car sales peaked in 2019. That made the campus and the city, and to some extent the county adopt biking as a primary mode, although according to the book Pedal Revolution over the decades the place of biking has diminished (" Better bike planning vis-a-vis Bike to work day and National Biking Month " 2013).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

percent of their book with a CLTV of 80-90 percent, with almost all of it (4.2 18 Even if house prices decline by 10 to 15 percent 19 , which only retraces a portion of how much they rose during the pandemic, the GSEs simply have only a very small percentage of their loan book that would be underwater. They only have 4.4

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 20, 2023

This feature lets Microsoft Teams users book a room for meetings now, in the future, or add the room to an existing meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel and using the Teams app on their Android or iOS mobile phones. Using Office Perpetual versions like Office 2019, Office 2019, and Office 2021/LTSC.

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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I went from checking out my favorite creepy books in North Carolina to walking to the library from my house in Bakersfield, California as a teen, and later, seeking out the library as a quiet refuge in college.” Her library held its first Drag Story Hour in 2019. Libraries have been a constant in my life.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

5 From 2014 through 2019, however, the average G-fee increasingly became based upon a well-established financial markets concept: 6 to generate, after covering expenses, a proper market return (also known as the “cost of capital”) on the capital that is required to support the risks being taken in the business.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. In what may set the record for the longest single paragraph in the statute books, G.S. By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 18, 2022

The Netflix series is based on “The Fifth Risk,” a 2018 book by bestselling author Michael Lewis, who joined “Profiles in Public Service” last season for an episode discussing the harmful effects of government shutdowns. About how they would consider adapting the book. And a lot of people were taking a dramatic approach.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

There are other forms too (" A comprehensive list of funding sources for arts and culture ," 2019), like New York City's and the Zoo, Arts, Parks sales tax in Salt Lake County. I don't think I was aware at the time of the Denver Scientific and Cultural Facilities District , which operates at a multicounty scale. But these are the basic ones.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

One of the most important books I read in the late 1980s, pre-Internet, was Maximarketing. Another good book was the Marketing Imagination. And I have to temper my thinking about this too. Its basic point was that you have to focus on all channels, not just some, selectively. That's where cities are. Downtown brings $2.3

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

In his book about the earthquake, the eminent Harvard medical doctor Paul Farmer [ii] noted that only 3.8% In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Like other Teams devices, a visual indicator in the form of green and purple vertical bar is added to each calendar slot so users can easily tell whether a room is booked or available at a glance. Users can scroll trough the calendar to view the full list of room bookings and availabilities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 18, 2024

Although the federal government hasn't stopped investment in science as discussed in the Michael Lewis book, The Fifth Risk , the government has become a lot more timid, which Lewis covers in his book on the response to covid, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 15, 2022

We need to be reintroduced to each other in a place where we are all on the same team,” the University of Maryland professor Lilliana Mason wrote in a 2019 essay , along with her observation that a study showed Korean War veterans who fought in newly desegregated units came home scoring higher in racial tolerance than those who did not.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A new book explores their rocky start ," Washington Post ) which is an interesting discussion of parks issues, starting with how Frederick Law Olmsted, the primary designer of Central Park in New York City, set the stage for the creation of national parks in the US. I haven't tracked it down yet.

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