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Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But close encounters during the rest of the week were a selling point in the successful campaign to lure the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a new federal research agency known as ARPA-H, to Cambridge, said O’Connell, the MassBio CEO. Good books on this are Cities Back from the Edge , The Living Downtown , and Changing Places.

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The Top 7 Tips for Library Emails That Are Guaranteed To Appeal to Millennials and Gen Z Readers

Super Library Marketing

And they use the library… not because I’m their mom, but because it has books and videos and music for free. Born between 1981 and 2009, they’re the largest adult demographic. Now, more research suggests your library can promote books and reading recommendations to teens and young adults using one main promotional tactic.

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10 Interesting Facts About the History of Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

It is also at this time that politician’s begin a very loose version of campaigning to expose ideas and platforms in order to gain a place in office. 1776 Adam Smith pens his book, Wealth of Nations which discusses public administration and specialization. We all know Alexander the Great wasn’t a guy who messed around.

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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I suppose there is a book out there, modelled after The Town that Food Saved , about the arts. 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).

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. Image: Wikipedia. Understanding shared roles in policy and administration: An empirical study of Council?Manager

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning. In the past there was nowhere for this kind of sentiment to go. Now it collects, solidifies and expresses itself online.