What Makes a Rural Community Age-Friendly? Insights into Aging in Place in Small Iowa TownsIlona Matysiak
Broadband and civic engagement in rural areas: What matters?: Community Development: Vol 47, No 5doi:10.1080/15575330.2016.1212910BroadbandaccessbroadbandadoptioncivicengagementcommunityanchorinstitutionsBrianDepartmentE.DepartmentWhitacreDepartmentJacobDepartment...
While Boles says most of the places he enjoys in New Haven are easy to walk to, there’s one exception: His favorite pizza place is a bit of a trek. Still, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Yale students are able to run most of their errands without a motorized vehicle.Walk Sc...
“If you violate the ATR rule as a lender, you can potentially be sued or be subject to regulatory enforcement,” says Austin Kilgore, director of corporate communications at financial firm Achieve. “So lenders that operate in the non-qualified mortgage space have a strong incentive to make ...
Although policy makers and the development community have widely used the phrase “rural development”, what constitutes rural development seems to have changed significantly overtimes. Until the 1970s, rural development was synonymous with agricultural development and hence focused on increasing agricultural...
However, there is limited guidance about what constitutes a liveable city from a LMIC perspective, with most of the evidence relating to high-income countries, such as Australia. Existing liveability frameworks include features such as public transport, affordable housing, and public open space; ...
Another key fact to keep in mind is that academic libraries often provide higher compensation than public libraries, and library jobs in major metropolitan areas tend to pay better than positions in rural areas, according to the ALA. Libraries targeted toward a particular group of people fre...
along the time, understood as negotiation spaces that need the acknowledgement of the local context to be put into practice and with the “real” participation of the involved community in its design and implementation, posing a true dialogue between the community knowledge and the scientific ...
Downshifting doesn't necessarily involve moving to a different location, although many people opt for an area that supports a healthier lifestyle and connection to nature such as a coastal town, a community near mountains, or a rural area in the countryside. ...
“Even when you're doing the book-learning phase of medical school, you can expect that you will be working eight hours a day, either in class or studying for the amount of information that we're expecting you to learn,” she says. Year 1 of Medical School The first...