A Library Writer's Blog

MAY 14, 2024

ACRL’s strategic plan and ALA’s Core Values of access, equity, intellectual freedom and privacy, public good, and sustainability can inform this conversation. Later, in 2015, Gorman published a subsequent edition titled Our Enduring Values Revisited: Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World.

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Stewardship Strategic Planning Outreach Sustainability 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

Transportation 52

Transportation Advocacy Sustainability Coordinator 52

Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

Their existing initiatives include the Sankofa District, a stretch of Salina Street that was rebranded by the city in 2015 to pay respect to those displaced from the historically Black 15th Ward, as well as the Salt City Market and Westside Gateway Projects.

Stewardship 52

Stewardship Grassroots Urban Planning Leadership 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2023

But a failure to keep renewing the space, a fall off in tourism after the Freddie Gray riots in 2015, and the unfortunate occurrence of a lousy property manager buying the complex combined to drive it into ruin. This might be a way to amp up the planning function.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Housing Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it. Center cities provide a kind of quality of life benefit to the suburbs, as they tend to provide more services and get more homeless individuals as a result.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s the natural environment (open space, rivers, tree cover, watershed, etc.),

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Public Safety Management Housing 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. Krimgold (eds) 2015. iii] Abrahams, D. Disasters 38(S1): S25-S49. [iv] iv] Davis, Ian 1978. v] Davis, I.,

Social Media 69

Social Media Public Affairs Development Security 69

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Later I summarized it as building better housing for low income residents was important but not the way to improve the local microeconomy. Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. It's the flip side of Social Psychology of Organizations.

Transportation 52

Transportation Community Development Housing Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2025

As I wrote before, I'd rather see a reconfiguring of HUD around Cities, Regions and Urban Ecology (sustainability), merging in some parts of the EPA and DOE smart growth operations, local and regional Economic Development aspects of the Dept. of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Sustainability, and refigure the departments some.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Transportation Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

focused on capturing worker trips but open to all ," (2017) -- " Revisiting assistance programs to get people biking: 26 programs ," (2024, original 2015, updated 2020) -- " Repeating b.s. Sustainable mobility platform : this builds off transit to include urban design and multiple modes. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. commission backs down on censoring art ," Washington Post ).

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers” announcing that the GSEs had just been placed into conservatorship, in which he referenced “…the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure…” See [link]. Paulson, Jr.

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Legislation Implementation Housing Regulations 90

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

US Department of Transportation backs down on sustainable mobility/Complete Streets programming. Salt Lake is a leading innovator in traffic calming, bike lanes, trails, and sustainable mobility initiatives, although I think they could do a lot more. I guess we'll see how oriented UDOT is to sustainable mobility.

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Transportation Sustainability Elected Officials Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

After the last one I went to, I joked "we don't need to do one in Sugar House Park. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. The best ones are where people actually buy, so they attract better quality artists (" Guide to the Top Art Fairs Across the U.S. ," Artwork Archive).

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Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security 52