Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

I just came across this book, The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. billion transformation of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex ," PI ] Salt Lake City, San Antonio are the others). And the Inquirer has published many good articles on the issues around the 76ers proposal.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

An award-winning geographer explains how he used data from every part of the world to visualize the development of finance over 5,000 years. Money makes the world go round, but where did it come from?

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For an example of a “TEFRA” approval resolution, see City Council of the City of Charlotte Resolution Book 53, Page 683 (Mar. Bond counsel typically assists in preparing the public notice required under the Code (see Treas. 1.147(f)-1(d)(4) ) and an approving “TEFRA” resolution.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

In what may set the record for the longest single paragraph in the statute books, G.S. Regardless of the housing authority structure, the powers are vast. Powers of housing authorities. to acquire property or interests therein, including by eminent domain. to own, hold, clear, and improve property. to sell, exchange, or assign property.

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 10, 2024

We are not a disparate collection of books,: Today’s libraries function as vibrant community centers that contribute to the social, cultural, and educational fabric of our neighborhoods, enriching the lives of young and old. Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. The four biggest issues these days are: 1.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?);

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

And that it was adjacent to the Dudley Street neighborhood, which had its own community improvement organization too, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, documented in the book Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. When neighborhoods become attractive at the scale of the metropolitan area, prices go up.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

The Growth Machine thesis from urban sociology is focused on local government, and how political and economic elites, despite seemingly intra-elite competition, are united on a real estate focused pro-growth agenda, since real estate development is the primary source of revenue and economic activity for local governments. "

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

A big element of the service is providing free books to children (" Clinic's reading room making a big difference for low-income kids ," KSL-TV) Some library systems have special health and wellness collections. Why not create one as part of a community-serving hospital?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

For some insight into how different research operations have significantly different rates and capacities for the development of spinoff businesses, see " How the closure of a Pfizer research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan led to the development of a more robust and independent biotech sector." This is a pdf of the book.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Good books on this are Cities Back from the Edge , The Living Downtown , and Changing Places. Small-firm economic development in the cultural sectors. Location of arts development agencies and companies. Slightly revised and reordered Cultural venues at a variety of scales, including small and medium.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

That didn't happen, but did with an campus adjacent development--Monroe Street Market--on land owned by CUA, but creating a competing retail center against the 12th Street commercial district, which still limps along today, 10 years after the opening of Monroe Street Market. EMU and ASL haven't had much impact. I don't know about UT.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 9, 2024

It isn't a definitive framework for creating a locally-centric regional food system, but the book, which features discussions of seven different communities across the country, highlights lots of innovative programs and good ideas. Along with other books about redeveloping community food systems. Culinary tourism as a phenomenon.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 14, 2025

Often this was the case for countries with natural resources and extraction/enclave development, where first world companies would extract resources with little focus on regional economic development. being examples (" Oil dependence | The US as a Petro-state and gasoholic | and war ," 2022).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 24, 2025

I've come across a book on the topic, Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City , although it's more about the process of upscaling a place and how its changed. It reminded me of the book It's Hardly Sportin' about Wrigleytown, the commercial district adjacent to Wrigley Field, where the Chicago Cubs play.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 1, 2025

A "division of the preservation movement" is the Main Street commercial district revitalization program , which links economic development with historic preservation focused on the revival of local commercial districts and downtowns in smaller communities. The Roanoke Virginia Residential Pattern Book is a stand out!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

I was thinking about it, that it's because transit agencies don't think much or focus on how what they do improves places, adds to economic development, reduces motor vehicle use, etc. Railroads too were active in promoting economic development, especially the recruitment of manufacturing plants, the growing of crops, etc.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2025

5) is devastating to research, and by extension the preeminence of US science, and long term economic development. College aged students aren't reading books. ( " Young people wont, or cant, read a book. Also see the journal article "Enacting the Illiberal Playbook in Hungary and Poland ," Perspective on Politics.

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