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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.

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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it turns out I had written something similar in 2007!!!!!! -- " It's time to create the "Port Authority" of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties " That was true in 2014 and 2007, and is still true in 2022. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning."

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

When I first saw coverage I thought, "what about the 2017" initiative, although granted it was before covid. is discussed by WTOP, " Metro’s future of bus service could bring new routes and end some familiar stops." And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

In a 2022 review article published by Carmen et al in the journal Ambio on the role of social capital and community resilience in the context of climate change, the authors find strong evidence for appreciating the different forms of social capital and the role they play in resiliency. (pp. 363) Social capital matters.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Third, was the pro-tunnel effort, which failed, and the desire to have a better connection to the Dulles Airport Terminal, more comparable to National Airport (" Winners and losers with the Dulles subway project ," 2007). But it's really a broader program than could be accomplished in the time frame of constructing the Silver Line.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

4 See Fred Ashton, October 2022, America Action Forum. 14 A good glimpse of this occurred in New York State in 2017. See Solomont, The Real Deal, December 29, 2017: “Under fire, title insurance companies spend heavily in Albany,” [link] , which provides rare details about such activities. 15 See [link].