Librarian.net

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 2, 2023

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

A Reddit thread complains about the quality of snow removal in DC (" Has DC's snow removal gone downhill? "), and it covers some of the same issues that got me writing those posts starting in 2009 (also my experience then working as a bicycle and pedestrian planner for Baltimore County).

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Housing Management 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). The intentions are laudable, as DRR needs to be democratised if it is to function. I need not repeat them here. Statler and R.

Laws 52

Laws Management Translation Community Engagement 52

Policy Chats

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Nicholas Adcock joined the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce in 2009 as the Community Development Coordinator and rose through positions of Communications & Marketing Manager and Governmental Affairs Manager before becoming the organization's Vice President in 2013.

Public Policy 59

Public Policy Communications Coordinator Community Development 59

Policy Chats

JANUARY 2, 2024

Nicholas Adcock joined the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce in 2009 as the Community Development Coordinator and rose through positions of Communications & Marketing Manager and Governmental Affairs Manager before becoming the organization's Vice President in 2013.

Public Policy 52

Public Policy Communications Coordinator Community Development 52

Policy Chats

JANUARY 2, 2024

Nicholas Adcock joined the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce in 2009 as the Community Development Coordinator and rose through positions of Communications & Marketing Manager and Governmental Affairs Manager before becoming the organization's Vice President in 2013.

Public Policy 52

Public Policy Communications Coordinator Community Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

That's not unlike what I've suggested for the Inauguration (" Should transit on Inauguration Day be free? ," 2013/2016) and other super special events (" Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit ," 2023). It's probably too little too late. And absolutely that it is a key issue.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Transportation Operations Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 3, 2023

According to a new report by the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, poverty, rates of people without health insurance, educational attainment, job opportunities and overcrowding all worsened in those neighborhoods between 2013 and 2021.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Engagement Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

By the time it debuted, a once-modest local community of directors and performers had grown considerably, backed by the county’s film office, which opened in 2013. The first film to represent Prince George’s that came to mind for her was a 2020 documentary about the county’s long list of accomplished basketball players.

Development 52

Development Communications Community Development Operations 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

As any transit user knows, once in a great while every transfer works beautifully, with little if any waiting (e.g., An intra-neighborhood shuttle, an element of what I call the tertiary transit (sub)network, would address the problem. Some examples exist, especially in Tempe, Arizona.

Transportation 52

Transportation Housing Sustainability Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

In 2009, I was able to spend half a day at Stoneleigh Elementary School in Baltimore County Maryland on International Walk to School Day. They had a very sophisticated approach. I've heard a school in Oxnard, California does something similar. Car sharing.

Transportation 96

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing 96

AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In 2013, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimated that approximately 382 million people had diabetes worldwide. Approximately 33% of all health care spending in 2009 went to hospital care. By 2035, this was predicted to rise to 592 million.

Public Sector 52

Public Sector Accountability Operations Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

. -- " What it will take to get WMATA out of crisis continued and 2016's 40th anniversary of WMATA as an opportunity to rebuild ," 2015 -- " WMATA and two types of public relations programs ," 2015 -- "St. Petersburg Metropolitan Area ," 2017).

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

. -- " You gotta have community building ," 2007 -- " Arts-based revitalization, community building, network strengthening, commodification, and Artomatic ," 2009 And like with multi-faceted arts centers, better economic return comes from those that are adaptively reused than built from scratch (" Developing Creative Quarters in Cities: Policy lessons (..)

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Parks And Recreation Housing 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Pahlka served in President Obama’s administration as the deputy chief technology officer from 2013-14, where she worked on initiatives to modernize government technology and improve digital services. She served as executive director from its formation until 2020.

Government 142

Government Public Sector Leadership Education 142

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

Transportation 52

Transportation Social Media Fundraising Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Development Management Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My entry on arts districts and arts as consumption versus arts as production is about this kind of approach (" Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" ," originally 2009, revised 2019). Large institutional arts districts.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Housing Development Community Development 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. 5] This was the policy of the FHFA when it was under the control of Acting Director Edward Demarco (2009 to very early 2014).

Press Release 52

Press Release Housing Regulations Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 14, 2025

(Reprint) ," Note: some stations will be closed within the National Mall area, and service will start at 4 am but "Everyone over the age of 5 needs a SmarTrip card to enter and exit stations." == The original post was from January 2, 2013, about 3 weeks before the Inauguration for President Obama's second term. Transit Throughput Delays 1.

Transportation 52

Transportation Management Operations Social Media 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. That will add to the activation-specialness-fun element of the concept of the Bridge Park. s Black arts scene ," Post ).

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Operations Development Nonprofit 52

Librarian.net

JANUARY 5, 2025

Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I continue to think that I should go by this place more often, it’s such a nice library.

Housing 52

Housing 52

Librarian.net

JANUARY 12, 2025

average read per month: 11.25 average read per week: 2.6 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

Management 52

Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

One of Ackerman’s examples is the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which hired IDEO in 2013 to redesign the school district’s cafeterias. Sometimes I tell the story of the first project I did at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a report on the presence of a potential carcinogen in alcoholic beverages.

Implementation 52

Implementation Leadership Sustainability Public Administration 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. But these kinds of efforts are often criticized as inequitable ( Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities , Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara, 2013).

Public Safety 52

Public Safety Parks And Recreation Housing Campaign 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2009 and a couple times afterwards, I said it was necessary for WMATA to rebuild the regional/metropolitan consensus about support for transit. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. Maybe this is no longer necessary. Funding options. The best would be a transit withholding tax.

Transportation 52

Transportation Budgeting Operations Government 52

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Occupy folks used blogging as a means to tell in-depth stories from the field, photos to document and illustrate the stories, and podcasting to make the voice of the protesters heard and to amplify the message (Tocchi, 2013).

Social Media 40

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots 40