Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Also a pop up history exhibit on Coney Island by an advocacy group there. Professor Schweiterman's exhibit Terminal Town, based on his book on the city's passenger terminals across all modes. In DC, the Anacostia Community Museum had a great exhibit called " Right to the City ," featuring six different neighborhoods.

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A Library Writer's Blog

JULY 17, 2023

How do nonprofits working in migration crises balance advocacy and service delivery? What are the humanitarian and social justice implications of nonprofits’ advocacy, governance, or implementation activities? As nonprofits engage in policy advocacy, what is the relationship between strategy and context?

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2021

He has been instrumental in shaping the profession in Mexico through research, standards, data and advocacy, and is doing great work to promote the value of parks and recreation in Mexico.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2024

As a book pointed out, if that doesn't communicate that Mayoral control isn't the solution, nothing does. Many school systems have formal councils that bring parents, teachers and school officials together on a committee that isn't powerful, that deals with "school transformation." For decades, in Chicago, the Mayor runs the school system.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MARCH 18, 2021

Today, we’re welcoming Sara Sinclair, an oral historian of Cree-Ojibwa and German-Jewish ancestry, Columbia University professor and editor of How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America , which is a book of first-person stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect the land, rights and life of Indigenous people in North America.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

Street Trees of Seattle is an interesting book. She chose to do this by drawing, and for the purposes of the book, she organized the content by neighborhood, focused on the primary type of tree "dominating" that particular neighborhood, although each section does list other significant trees that are also present.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 26, 2021

Mariana Mazzucato has taken the idea as far as anyone including in her latest book. And, in a nice piece of timing, that is the title of Michael Barber’s new book in his “deliverology” sequence. You’ll need to read the book (and so will I). But here’s the thing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them. 11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome. [12]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 10, 2023

When I went to college there was a book "famous" in economics called Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics , about the manipulation of data. In reporting on transit ridership, I am bothered when they don't report ridership by bus line or day of the week, but "by the year." That's crazy.

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Librarian.net

JULY 10, 2021

We work to recognize and dismantle systemic and individual biases; to confront inequity and oppression; to enhance diversity and inclusion; and to advance racial and social justice in our libraries, communities, profession, and associations through awareness, advocacy, education, collaboration, services, and allocation of resources and spaces.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As with most every topic, it turns out there are great resources in the academic literature, from books to journal articles, and some cities have codified policies too. -- Public washroom design and technical guidelines , City of Vancouver BC -- " Building Safe Toilet Design into Shared Urban Space ," Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human (PHLUSH) -- Public (..)

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Alzheimer’s, veterans, or energy) you may want to look for funding opportunities sponsored by foundations and advocacy organizations associated with these issues. Lastly, if your research area relates to a specific disease, population, or industry (e.g., Robertson, Stephen W.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Because my job was exclusively teaching – I taught four sections of writing courses every fall and spring semester – I didn’t have much time to continue pursuing research or turning my dissertation into a book project, the usual next step in my field. I was also burned out and disillusioned with academic life.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

The Friends of the Salt Lake City Library, which covers all of the libraries in the city, is particularly good (" Outdoor library book sale as an opportunity for "social bridging"/triangulation "). While out of date in terms of current programs, the book Neighbor Power describes the first couple decades of the program.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Or is it just a case, in a highly politicized industry, of a politically convenient advocacy rationale to justify not increasing G-fees? But is this argument valid? For several reasons, in my view, the argument is not substantially valid. Also, the 0.10 6] It was officially adopted in 2017. [7]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This comic is based on the first done in Germany performance of showing how much space different modes consume on the street. -- October is National Community Planning Month Books. It's an important book for both land use and transit. The book is very accessible, less technical than Cities in Full. Book chapter.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Advocacy groups like Feet First of Seattle and Starkville in Motion (Mississippi) have utilized walk to school initiatives as a way to drive pedestrian improvements more broadly across their respective Safety is a key element. make it almost impossible for mayors to play that role.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 11, 2023

States can short their pension obligations, issue debt to cover operating expenses, create off-the-books entities to issue debt, pass the buck to local governments, and game the revenue estimate - just to name a few gimmicks. Yet, by and large, year after year, most states pass fiscally constrained budgets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

A few years ago when I was doing research on public markets I came across the book Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food and Community , which posits a more locally controlled and democratically involved regional food system, as opposed to the one we have, dominated by huge corporations. It's an interesting book.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 23, 2024

As is my want, when I was in college I became interested in how colleges work and I read a lot of the literature of the time about "college student development" especially William Perry's Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme (book, a webpage ).

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2025

All print materials must be approved and abide by the campus brand book. We are cultivating advocacy efforts among library student workers to use their own dept/program email groups to share library information.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

The current media focus on conservatorship exit, therefore, seems to be driven more by advocacy than by coldly-calculated prediction of what Trump II’s policy priorities will be in 2025. well under book value), this will automatically increase the cost of capital and thus should directly lead to an increase of G-fees.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Sidney Tarrow defines a social movement as collective challenges [to elites, authorities, other groups or cultural codes] by people with common purposes and solidarity in sustained interactions with elites, opponents and authorities (1998).

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