Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Campaign flyers for the Bring Chicago Home referendum at a march to the polls event March 9, 2024, in Chicago. In Chicago, new mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a higher transfer tax rate on properties selling for more than $1 million, to pay for affordable housing. Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune) 2. Real estate transfer tax in Chicago.

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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

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2018, the City of Somerville renovated the park, turning it from baseball fields into a lively space with a skate park, parkour area, basketball court, multiple playgrounds, hammock poles, a community garden, and much more. The park was designed to spur the interactions that allowed the spontaneous group to grow.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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