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People aren't "hanging out" as much outdoors during the workday in the center city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

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3 Library Marketing Experts Agree: It’s Time for Your Library To Abandon Twitter

Super Library Marketing

Ned Potter splits his time between being Faculty Engagement Manager: Community + UX at the University of York and running freelance workshops on library marketing and social media. She’s a 2010 Library Journal Mover & Shaker. You’ll see engagement levels skyrocket, and your impact increase.”

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How ETH Library uses Apigee to make its open data holdings available to the public

Google Public Sector

The mission of the ETH Library is to ensure the access of information to employees and students of ETH Zurich and other universities worldwide, to the public, and to companies engaged in research and development.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Citizen engaged planning practice. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

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.

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How ETH Library uses Apigee to make its open data holdings available to the public

Google Public Sector

The mission of the ETH Library is to ensure the access of information to employees and students of ETH Zurich and other universities worldwide, to the public, and to companies engaged in research and development.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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]