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  1. Journal Square, Where the Library Only Takes Returns

    On August 17, 2026, the Jersey City Free Public Library installed a book drop outside its Five Corners Branch at 678 Newark Avenue. The building behind it, sixty-nine years old and dark since early July, will accept what you give back. It will lend you nothing. A parking lot where a Bookmobile idles four days a week is now the whole of the public library in Journal Square, the neighborhood at the center of the loudest building boom in New Jersey's second-largest city. I live in this city. I have spent my working life writing, editing, and publishing books, and I can tell you what that steel drop says to a child walking past it on the way to school: the city will take from you, and the city has stopped giving. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/04/jour

  2. Journal Square, Where the Library Only Takes Returns

    On August 17, 2026, the Jersey City Free Public Library installed a book drop outside its Five Corners Branch at 678 Newark Avenue. The building behind it, sixty-nine years old and dark since early July, will accept what you give back. It will lend you nothing. A parking lot where a Bookmobile idles four days a week is now the whole of the public library in Journal Square, the neighborhood at the center of the loudest building boom in New Jersey's second-largest city. I live in this city. I have spent my working life writing, editing, and publishing books, and I can tell you what that steel drop says to a child walking past it on the way to school: the city will take from you, and the city has stopped giving. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/04/jour

  3. Journal Square, Where the Library Only Takes Returns

    On August 17, 2026, the Jersey City Free Public Library installed a book drop outside its Five Corners Branch at 678 Newark Avenue. The building behind it, sixty-nine years old and dark since early July, will accept what you give back. It will lend you nothing. A parking lot where a Bookmobile idles four days a week is now the whole of the public library in Journal Square, the neighborhood at the center of the loudest building boom in New Jersey's second-largest city. I live in this city. I have spent my working life writing, editing, and publishing books, and I can tell you what that steel drop says to a child walking past it on the way to school: the city will take from you, and the city has stopped giving. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/04/jour

  4. दिल्ली में प्रदूषण के चलते प्राइवेट बसों पर ब्रेक, कैबिनेट बैठक में केवल DTC बसें चलाने को मंजूरी।

    aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news

    #DelhiPollution #DTCOnly #PublicTransport #CleanAir #UrbanMobility #EnvironmentalPolicy #GreenDelhi #AirQuality #SustainableTransport #EcoInitiatives #DelhiCabinet #ZeroEmission #CleanCity #PolicyReform #UrbanDevelopment

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  5. In Seine-Saint-Denis, the first residents move into the Paris 2024 Olympics Athletes’ Village.

    This new neighbourhood straddles the cities of Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen and L’Ile-Saint-Denis, and is set to welcome 6 000 residents and 6 000 employees almost simultaneously.

    mediafaro.org/article/20251008

    #Paris #France #Paris2024 #Olympics #Economy #Sports #Housing #UrbanDevelopment #UrbanPlanning #Cities