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Please Recommend a Book

Barrett & Greene

We’ve recently been reading an advance copy of a book by Bill Leighty, former chief of staff under Governors Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of Virginia. About a dozen years ago, while we were writing columns for Governing magazine, we asked our readers to “submit suggestions for reading materials that are useful for government managers.”

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Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A gift subscription to a regional food magazine. Each magazine covers its local food scene, from farmers and restaurants to markets and recipes. How about Cook's Illustrated , Cook's County , or Fine Cooking , independently published specialty recipe magazines produced to a high quality, with a great deal of research.

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Visiting art on the shelves

Princeton Public Library

I was a classic suburban kid whose formation of arts and culture largely came from the rabbit hole of the Internet, People Magazine and the treasure trove that is the Princeton Public Library. Itching for paintings and drawings, I got to see my favorite artists’ work by perusing through books long before witnessing them in […]

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Automated Email Marketing Is a Time Saver for Your Library but It May Also Be a Terrible Experience for Your Patrons! Here Are the Pros and Cons.

Super Library Marketing

I’ve switched from mainly print fiction books to audiobooks. I’m now a heavy user of downloadable magazines. This is particularly true when it comes to book recommendations. And the things that are interesting about a book—the tone, pace, setting, and characters, cannot be managed by an algorithm.

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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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 ). Note that before the book, there was an article in Fortune Magazine , " Downtown is for people " ( pdf ).

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Parking Garage Performances: Socially Distant Entertainment

Reprogramming the City

Choreographer Jacob Jonas and director of his own dance company told Dance Magazine he felt “antsy” after coming to terms with how long people would be required to social distance. As the magazine writes: He and four other dancers in his apartment complex had been training daily in empty parking garages nearby.

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Little Free Bakery, Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I try to save magazines and such that I don't rip up to provide people with an opportunity for a second read. The Little Free Library initiative has spawned a number of extensions including Seed Libraries, Community Refrigerators and Pantries, dog toy sharing (at least in Salt Lake), etc.