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Singapore’s National Library Board aims to unlock country’s rich heritage with AR app built by AWS Partner NCS

AWS Public Sector Blog

By giving everyone the ability to discover stories behind Singapore’s iconic landmarks, NLB hopes to inspire all to learn and appreciate the events that shape Singapore’s national identity and collective experience. Space: Encourage users to explore other iconic landmarks within the vicinity and district.

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Avangrid Teaming Up With DFSMFC To Empower Local Women

The Whistle Post

benefit will celebrate the success stories and supporters of this vital community program. will feature Karen Dubois-Walton, PhD, President, Elm City Communities, and recently appointed Chairperson of the State Board of Education receiving the Denise “Denny” Taft Davidoff Empowerment Award. The Purse-suit of Success!

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Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

Parks and Recreation programs are one of the key ways of delivering service to thousands of community members every year. From special events, to team sports, to cultural programs, the responsibility to provide quality programs and services to all members of the community is incredibly essential.

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How do you make the ground floor of an arena strengthen the area around it, rather than diminish it? | Philadelphia 76ers

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The buildings are big and usually the ground plane is not set up to be vibrant and active, the rents are high for the spaces that exist, and retail businesses focused on events in the building still have to find customers for the other 200-300 days of the year when there isn't anything going on in the arena. That's a legitimate argument.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They also have a small grant program for friends of parks groups. They include sending mailers to residents; tabling at community events; and distributing fliers at schools, businesses and places of worship. Participatory Budgeting initiatives. Interesting issues. There are solutions.

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University of Utah University Neighborhood Partners program and community revitalization in West side Salt Lake City/County

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And at the University of Maryland, community programs serving area communities seem to wax and wane depending on the university's economic circumstances. After the 2008 recession, they dropped their primary outreach program. Partners in the Park event in Poplar Grove Park.