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

JULY 14, 2022

Hailo didn't last long (" Hailo Shuts Down: How Taxi Drivers Sabotaged a Golden Opportunity and Handed Uber and Lyft the Keys ," Frommers, 2014). That's the advantage of "disruptive innovation," you just do it, rather than trying to convince existing firms to join up.

Regulations 52

Regulations Campaign Transportation Laws 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Poster board from the 2014 meetings. 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. CDC,s can be such a tool.

Housing 52

Housing Community Development Development Nonprofit 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. "

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Urban Planning Transportation Outreach 52

Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Over the years, thanks to Tokelau’s cheap and easy registration process, the revenue generated from their domain sales has seen a massive rise in their GDP, which, in 2012, had the lowest GDP output in the entire world. In 2022, the island of Tuvalu made an estimated $10 million from the income of its.tv country code.

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Regulations Government Development Operations 111

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Between 2012 and 2014, researchers enrolled almost 700 food pantry clients with diabetes in a six-month pilot intervention in three states. Can food banks be used to address diet-sensitive disease in low-income communities? A new study of a pilot intervention suggests they can.

Management 40

Management 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

," 2023 -- " DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project ," 2022 -- " The Anacostia River and considering the bridges as a unit and as a premier element of public art and civic architecture ," 2014 -- " DC has a big "Garden Festival" opportunity in the Anacostia River ," 2014 -- " A world class water/environmental education center at Poplar Point as another (..)

Development 40

Development Economic Development Community Development Public Health 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

I ended up writing many entries on the issue: -- " Walmart: in the city, vs. of the city ," 2011 -- Lessons from Walmart's foray into DC ," 2011 -- Wal-mart plays hardball with DC ," 2013 -- What community benefits are supposed to be versus what people think they are about ," 2013 -- " More Walmart in DC ," 2013 -- " 6Ps, Walmart in DC and "I hate (..)

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Laws Housing Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise. Besides the general TDM approach, utilize other methods to promote transit.

Transportation 96

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing 96

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In turn that would help to spur development of the Pepco power plant site, which stopped producing electricity in 2012, and Benning Road further east, and Minnesota Avenue. Other areas too.)

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Development Economic Development Voting 52

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The broader community of Public Management scholars should be paying attention to these relational shifts and trends, and must embrace research that reveals new insights about government-nonprofit relationships. References. LeRoux, Kelly. Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development? Journal of Urban Affairs , 34 (1): 65-80.

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Nonprofit Government Fundraising Economic Development 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," 2018 As urban neighborhoods become more desirable at the scale of the metropolitan residential choice landscape , prices will go up, and people who had been able to afford to live there will be outbid.

Housing 52

Housing Economic Development Development Community Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

. -- " Two train/regional transit ideas: Part 1 | Amtrak should acquire Greyhound ," 2021 The fifth is writing on bus transit. -- " Making bus transit service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 --" Will buses ever be cool? They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018.

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place.

Management 52

Management Nonprofit Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

Waverly Market Pete Seeger tribute singalong, Columbia Heights Plaza, Washington, DC, 2/1/2014 Sometimes plazas are poorly placed, like Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, so it often goes unused. DC's Franklin Square is more centrally located, but wasn't designed for such a function.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Press Release Strategic Planning Engagement 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

Press Release 52

Press Release Housing Regulations Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Or years ago, I suggested Morgan State should have relocated its architecture school to the Station North Arts district in Baltimore. -- " Morgan State University should move their architecture and planning school to Downtown/Station North Arts District ," 2014 Howard could do something similar. When it was in the commercial district. "

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations. We mostly dealt with drug and gun crimes, but got robberies, assaults, murder, etc.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I argue this was because the DC side was full of hubris--we have the city's interests at the foremost they intimated, and because they failed to think in the slightest in how to make the argument about how the current residents would benefit.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Advocacy Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post And because we don't provide actionable information and the structures to address the problem.

Transportation 52

Transportation Laws Sustainability Budgeting 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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

I've mentioned this for years (" Social marketing and aberrant driving ," 2020, " When the car lobby encourages law breaking ," 2012), but only recently after some high profile deaths is the city addressing this (" Reckless drivers in spotlight as D.C. Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.

Transportation 40

Transportation Campaign Public Health Laws 40

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. [i] Muggah, R. The effects of stabilisation on humanitarian action in Haiti. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii] Haiti After the Earthquake. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp. iii] Abrahams, D.

Social Media 69

Social Media Public Affairs Development Security 69

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

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Although public beer gardens are a method chosen by Philadelphia Horticultural Society and later the Parks Department, alongside Milwaukee to activate spaces (" Cities Want Young Families to Play and Stay: New Features Include Parks, Playgrounds and Beer Gardens ," Wall Street Journal, 2014).

Development 59

Development Management Operations 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Klyde Warren Park in Dallas opened in 2012. square-mile public improvement district, established in 2014 to help fund park programming, security and maintenance by way of special assessments on nearby properties. There are a number of freeway deck parks around the country, dating to the 1970s in Seattle. Economic value.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Housing Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 14, 2025

Examples would be Shell Oil in Nigeria or Kennecott Copper in Chile, Years ago, I applied these ideas to the Anacostia neighborhood of DC (" Enclave development won't "save" Anacostia ," 2006) and Prince George's County (" Can enclave development "save" Prince George's County? ," 2012).

Development 52

Development Economic Development Accountability Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I have a post about this related to biking (" Revisiting assistance programs to get people biking: 18 programs "), this piece about bus transit (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012), and this about district-focused transportation programming (" What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like? ").

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Housing Transportation Engagement 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But they serve millions of people, and people deserve high quality service. -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," (2012) -- " Will buses ever be cool? The intra-district element undergirds my thinking about how to define the sustainable mobility platform. -- " Making the case for intra-city (vs.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014. A: Starting in 2012, the FHFA began to systematically correct the defects in the GSE business model while they were still in conservatorship, rather than maintaining the status quo year after year while waiting for Congress to someday pass legislation.

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Legislation Regulations Operations Housing 105

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

I ended up writing many entries on the issue: -- " Walmart: in the city, vs. of the city ," 2011 -- " Lessons from Walmart's foray into DC ," 2011 -- " Wal-mart plays hardball with DC ," 2013 -- " What community benefits are supposed to be versus what people think they are about ," 2013 -- " More Walmart in DC ," 2013 -- " 6Ps, Walmart in DC and "I (..)

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Housing Elected Officials Development 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Haynes 2012. Bird et al. Bilham 2011.

Social Media 52

Social Media Communications Management Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). There are plenty of other examples.

Voting 52

Voting Campaign Elected Officials Housing 52

ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Here in America, only about 5 percent of Americans give the maximum amount possible to any candidate and, in 2012, 132 Americans gave 60 percent of all the Super Pac money spent. Globally, the 62 richest billionaires own and control as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population.

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Campaign Public Policy Leadership Government 130

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 31, 2025

Since Congress has not focused on conservatorship exit or any type of GSE reform for many years –the last real push was circa 2014– almost all of today’s speculation assumes, correctly in my view, that Trump II would have no choice but to proceed via administrative means.

Implementation 52

Implementation Legislation Regulations Housing 52