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National Library Week, April 23-29

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. Many years I write an omnibus piece covering a bunch of issues, including library architectural and programmatic design, and what we might call current affairs. The two biggest issues these days are: 1. I still have to figure all that out for a blog post.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

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That allowed the city to use multiple types of outreach to share updates with people as the project developed. The Return to the Riverbend campaign, launched in fall 2021, yielded community input that the city used to create a master plan, released the following summer, for a new riverfront area.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

That allowed the city to use multiple types of outreach to share updates with people as the project developed. The Return to the Riverbend campaign, launched in fall 2021, yielded community input that the city used to create a master plan, released the following summer, for a new riverfront area.

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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. For example, " Residents offered free health checks in libraries ," BBC and " Creative library project underway in Wilmington to spur community and economic development ," Wilmington News-Journal. Other developments. The four biggest issues these days are: 1.

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Third place issues

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Notably examples are England's pubs (" Community pubs campaign ," Plunkett Foundation), Viennese coffee shops, and neighborhood cafes in France especially Paris. Civic assets as public facing opportunities for civic engagement and promotion of democracy. The concept has revitalized the idea of joining a book club.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Public facing civic assets--libraries, parks, schools, sustainable mobility programs like walking, biking, and transit, Safe Routes to School, public markets, farmers markets, etc.--should at farmers and public markets. at farmers and public markets. Whyte and "triangulation."