Deconstructing Saint Jane
The iconic urban thinker has influenced generations of planners, but how do her ideas hold up in an age of massive upheaval and economic inequality? March 14, 2021, 11am PDT | Diana Ionescu |
Writing in Urban Omnibus, Jennifer Hock, Nathan Storring, and Samuel Zipp take stock of the legacy of the so-called patron saint of city planners, that powerful voice for neighborhood-level urbanism, Jane Jacobs.
While Jacobs observations on the qualities of vibrant neighborhoods once served as the paragon of urbanist ideals, recently some critics have argued that her ideas are a relic that has been rendered useless in a time of huge-scale urban and global problems. The building blocks she wrote about have become codified lifestyle amenities for real estate boosterism, instruments of accumulation in the quivers of urban developers that are created and manipulated to sell high-priced properties to those who can afford them. Whereas Jacobs relentlessly b
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COLUMBUS The Ohio School Boards Association (OSBA) reacted to the passage of House Bill (HB) 67 by the Ohio House of Representatives. The bill, which passed by a vote of 93-1 and advances to the Senate, would provide graduation flexibility and targeted testing waivers to students and schools for the 2020-21 school year, among other changes.
However, because a vote on the bill’s emergency clause failed 57-38, the bill will not take effect until June, long after tests have been administered. For bills designated as emergency measures, the Ohio Constitution requires two-thirds support of the members of each chamber on the emergency clause. If an emergency clause is approved, the bill itself also requires a two-thirds majority vote to pass.
At the moment, it s receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.
In the future, the Health Service Executive expects six different Covid-19 vaccines to be stored here.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the trickiest to handle. It has to be stored at ultra-low temperatures, between -70C and -90C.
The Citywest facility, used for the HSE’s National Cold Chain Service, has ten ultra-low temperature freezers for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, another five freezers for the Moderna vaccines, which are stored at -20C, and large freezers with temperatures between -2C and -8C, for any future vaccines.
From arrival in the warehouse to handover at the vaccination site the vaccines are temperature checked and tracked by GPS.