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Electric vehicles as next generation asphalt nation: Car Harm paper

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In the early 1960s, gasoline station companies had a campaign promoting asphalt (made from oil) road pavements. Also see the Bloomberg article " EVs Can’t Fix a Global Epidemic of ‘Car Harm,’ Study Finds." The report concludes: In 2019, 43% of people killed by motor vehicles were walking, using a wheelchair or riding a bike.

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Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Agglomeration economies and the biotech cluster in Cambridge Massachusetts.The Globe article explains why I am such a proponent of face to face, cluster development and agglomeration economies. Attendance at Thursday night programs and networking events at Venture Care have drawn an average of 419 people this fall, up from353 in 2019.

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Why Federal Down Payment Assistance and Closing Cost Reform Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The idea gained additional visibility when Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign announced it was proposing a federal DPA program with generous levels of funding. This article acts in part as an addendum to my recent two-part series on closing costs. percent from 2019 to 2022 (the latest available).

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The reason for mentioning this example is part of my response to an article that appeared in Times Higher Education (THE 2019). In the meantime, we need to keep up the campaign to create a core curriculum in disaster studies (see my earlier posts) and not ignore the messages of the fundamental literature of the past 100 years.

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Transit equity day, Sunday 2/4/24, in honor of Black History Month, Rosa Parks, and the significance of transportation history to African-American History

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Black History Month and the New Jim Crow ," 2020 -- " Two ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month ," 2020 -- " African American History Month and Urban Planning ," 2019 National Archives photo of a pretty much empty bus during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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5 use cases for business intelligence in retail

Open Access Government - Technology News

This article provides the top five retail BI use cases to highlight the technology advantage for businesses. Example: Nike In 2018 and 2019, Nike acquired two technology companies, Zodiac and Celect, to accelerate the adoption of predictive analytics in the enterprise.

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Paris votes to ban electric scooters

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But probably the biggest issue is how so many users don't park scooters in a way that is respectful of public space. (" Electric scooters have ruined Paris – we can't let London be next ," Telegraph , 2019). From the article: N ormally, anything that combats the notorious traffic congestion on the streets of Paris deserves applause.

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