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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The next stage for Equinox is to become more of a nonprofit arts community development corporation, like Jubilee Housing of Baltimore, which does both studio development and housing. Initially, he turned Equinox into a cooperative, with every tenant holding an ownership stake.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” In their research, Monkkonen and his colleagues evaluated California’s 2017 and 2018 reforms to address issues in the state’s “fair share” system. Ramapo is unusual because its large Orthodox voting bloc was more enthusiastic about housing growth than most suburbanites.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Other cities have differently named similar organizations.

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Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Council to decriminalize fare evasion in 2018. Since that year, police records show, transit officers have dramatically shifted away from enforcing fare evasion across the rail and bus system, with citations and arrests numbering less than 300 last year, compared with more than 15,000 in 2017.

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BTMFBA: London edition

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And two floors in a building in Hackney Wick (a cool district I stayed in in 2018). The council identified the need to help the missing middle in its updated cultural strategy that is to be voted on by councillors on June 24. is in a new build residential complex.

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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. But overall in the US, such services haven't fared too well. More and more women are being elected to City Councils, etc.

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COVID-19 and the Underlying Political Impact on the Public Education System

The Lowe Down

The data were gathered from the state’s department of education websites or other state websites, and include the total number of Kindergarten students in a given county from the academic years starting 2017 to 2021. Figure 1 displays the average annual growth rates for the Kindergarten class in each state. .