The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

This report—produced by the NYU Furman Center and the Urban Institute’s Housing Justice team—uses a mix of public and proprietary data to better understand where those vulnerabilities might lie in New York City. 6 At the same time, the City’s Zoning Resolution (ZR) continues to evolve in response to housing needs.

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Outreach Housing Laws Development 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These two recent entries recount many of the pieces as step by step I developed a more comprehensive approach to arts-based revitalization. -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?):

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

By spring 2024, the first four stations should be complete. After a series of violent crimes, leaders here took decisive action starting in 2018. Liverpool Echo photo. Louis article (paragraphs reordered): Every aspect of operations was reexamined with an eye toward keeping passengers safe. A program at Union Station is a huge step ").

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Security Public Safety Implementation Elected Officials 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 Freeway capping. But even before that I went back and forth on it. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right.

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Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

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

Development 40

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Women make up the highest proportion of Congress than ever before – 29% of the House and 25% of the Senate, a considerable increase from even ten years ago when women held only 18% of Congressional seats. For almost one hundred years southern states have elected women to the House at lower rates than the U.S.

Housing 52

Housing 52

Librarian.net

JANUARY 5, 2025

Totally a homebody this year; seventy library visits and most of them within a half mile of my house. Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. I liked working at my library.

Housing 52

Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 15, 2025

2018) -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St. The grants will be a reliable source of funding for the many church and community organizations that address food and housing insecurity and other social issues that affect health and well-being. The building site is 1.5

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

And two floors in a building in Hackney Wick (a cool district I stayed in in 2018). Over the last decade, Sydneys cultural infrastructure has shrunk by the equivalent of three Sydney Opera Houses, Lord Mayor Clover Moore will tell cultural leaders. is in a new build residential complex.

Nonprofit 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Photograph: David Rowe/Alamy Under Conservative control of the UK from 2010-2024, local governments were severely crushed by actions of the central government, austerity and other cuts, and further mandates meant that local governments faced up to a 2/3 drop in revenues.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I made the point that city biking has different issues from a suburban or rural trail. , 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. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In July 2024, the Pentagon conducted a study that revealed a sobering statistic: US soldiers are nine times more likely to die by suicide than in combat, leading to suicide being the number one cause of death for US soldiers. Suicide rates among veterans continued to climb from 2001 to 2018 before dipping back for 2019 and 2020.

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