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Call for Chapters: Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development #ACRLPublication

A Library Writer's Blog

Proposal Deadline: June 19, 2024 Submit Proposals here: [link] You are invited to submit an abstract for a chapter in an upcoming edited book with the working title, Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development published by ACRL.

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Pittsburgh developer backs down on opposition to ticket fee for concerts, to be used for area improvements

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Before Tuesday, the Hill Community Development Corporation had been pushing for the $2 ticket fee as well as a $2 surcharge on each vehicle parked in the garage as a way to help fund infrastructure improvements and development activities in the neighborhood. Groups always fight them, including nonprofit groups receiving subsidies.

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Street Smarts: Jacksonville Forges a High-Tech Future in Mass Transit

State Tech Magazine

Roughly two years after Nathaniel Ford became Jacksonville Transportation Authority CEO in 2012, JTA launched what Ford refers to as “a very aggressive approach related to technology.” We have a very well-developed highway network here; commuting to and from work is rather easy and comfortable,” he says. There's also the cultural…

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing. COYHO is aimed at easing New York City's housing shortage by updating zoning regulations to encourage more housing development across the city.

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Street Smarts: Jacksonville Forges a High-Tech Future in Mass Transit

State Tech Magazine

Roughly two years after Nathaniel Ford became Jacksonville Transportation Authority CEO in 2012, JTA launched what Ford refers to as “a very aggressive approach related to technology.” We have a very well-developed highway network here; commuting to and from work is rather easy and comfortable,” he says. There's also the cultural…

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How an open source EMR system has transformed patient healthcare in more than 50 countries

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Thoughtworks team first created Bahmni in 2012 for a charitable hospital in a remote part of central India, Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS), through our social impact program. To support the growing community and its needs, Thoughtworks formed the Bahmni Coalition of open source developers and implementation partners.