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Whyte ," Wall Street Journal ), which formed the basis of the book, The Social Life of Urban Spaces , and the larger version, The City , which is a classic in urban design. At each site, pedestrians walked faster in 2010 than they had in 1980, by an average of 15%. Researchers replicated the studies of William H. Unhospitable space.
I started and finished 115 books. One more book got added to my best in show category: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, though I felt like I read a lot of good books this year. Here are stats for the books that I finished. ebook to book ratio: 63:52. Here are stats for the books that I finished.
This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. One hundred and fourteen books. I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. I was busier, happier.
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Kimball (79) – Most weeks I worked here one day and I stopped by a lot of other times, for sub shifts or just to get a book. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003.
The ETH Library owns and provides access to a large amount of diverse and valuable data (more than 30 million books, series, journals, and non-book materials as well as hundreds of terabytes of digital replica or digital-born images).
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.
She’s a 2010 Library Journal Mover & Shaker. She has written several books about web design, social media, and content marketing for libraries, and speaks internationally. Laura Solomon , MCIW, MLS is the Library Services Manager for the Ohio Public Library Information Network and a W3C-certified front-end web developer.
We are not a disparate collection of books,: Today’s libraries function as vibrant community centers that contribute to the social, cultural, and educational fabric of our neighborhoods, enriching the lives of young and old. Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. The four biggest issues these days are: 1.
While I haven’t read the book yet, a New Year’s Day review in the New York Times Book Review got me thinking. After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). What might compass over map mean? Nothing else will do.
Philadelphia Inquirer business columnist Joseph DiStefano has a piece, " How Philly lost its big banks, and a little survivor that’s grown in the vacuum ," about two books about the history of Philadelphia's banks, most of which have met similar fates to those of Detroit, St. But that story isn’t in this book; he plans a sequel.
Though issues of fatigue are gaining increased and merited attention in recent years, as far back as 2000, Dr. Bryan Vila authored a book called Tired Cops, written under a grant from the U.S. in 2010 to 35.6% One focused on their relationship with supervisors and the other was that they were not able to take enough days off.
When I went to college there was a book "famous" in economics called Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics , about the manipulation of data. In reporting on transit ridership, I am bothered when they don't report ridership by bus line or day of the week, but "by the year." That's crazy.
Kendi is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor and the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America , which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, making him the youngest ever winner of that award. “We Pre-registration ends August 31, 2022.
The ETH Library owns and provides access to a large amount of diverse and valuable data (more than 30 million books, series, journals, and non-book materials as well as hundreds of terabytes of digital replica or digital-born images).
For awhile GWU did a program like the Community Planning Lab, mostly for ANC commissioners, but I didn't think it reached very far. -- " (Even more on) ANCs (Advisory Neighborhood Commissions in DC) ," 2010 DC and non-citizens. I think that's reasonable. Residents who are not citizens still have a stake in local matters.
By 2009/2010, ICMA, GFOA, NLC and the Alliance for Innovation urged us to broaden our ability to serve many local governments surviving the Great Recession. It comes from Peter Diamandis, in his book BOLD: ? The roots of PBB came to life to fulfill that mission.
8] The privatization of Fannie Mae in 1968 by the Johnson administration was explicitly done to take government spending off the books under the pressure of Vietnam War era “guns and butter” budget strains. [9] 7] This means it is easier for the government to stay under congressionally-mandated debt ceilings. [8]
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This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all.
This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. I started 137 books and finished 135. Here was the Mastodon thread of what I read last year and here’s my 2024 booklist. I didn’t mind it but I might have liked being out doing more other things. I finally managed to read a majority of female and non-binary authors.
I think that's ironic because it has taken 14 years to get to this point--the system was launched in September 2010 and has been expanding, albeit primarily in the city's core, where biking works best (more below on this).
From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010). It was an important lesson to me about not learning the wrong lesson from success.
Further, as protest movements grow more diverse, so must our theoretical framework and investigations of the nature of protest movements in online spaces (Earl, 2010; Earl, J. The platforms of social media are built around weak ties” (Gladwell 2010, p. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief. 2011; Aday, et al.,
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