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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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 11, 2023

JSVA is a critical step in demonstrating that DIB contractors have the cybersecurity maturity required to be a Department of Defense (DoD) trusted partner and is available until the DoD finalizes its rulemaking for CMMC, which is expected in mid-2024.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My entry on arts districts and arts as consumption versus arts as production is about this kind of approach (" Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" ," originally 2009, revised 2019). The Drury students came up with the idea for the House of Art(s). Art House Baltimore is the name of the project.It

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

7 Second, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the largest government agency that helps finance homeownership, routinely insures mortgages with just a 3.5 1 See “Down Payment Assistance Programs & Grants by State 2024,” [link]. percent from 2019 to 2022 (the latest available). ” April 1, 2024.

Housing 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. But even before that I went back and forth on it. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5

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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I went from checking out my favorite creepy books in North Carolina to walking to the library from my house in Bakersfield, California as a teen, and later, seeking out the library as a quiet refuge in college.” Her library held its first Drag Story Hour in 2019. Libraries have been a constant in my life.

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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.

Housing 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

The report says annual tax revenue generated from downtown has declined by $243 million since 2019, and if current conditions are left unabated, could decline by an additional $193 million over the next five to 10 years.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It's nice to see Democrats pick up the State House in Virginia and keep the Senate. In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more. And the commercial real estate market is tanking because of work from home, but the CRE market likely isn't top of mind the way housing sales are.

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