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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Yet in her mind none of this is sufficient to overrule the convenience of being able to go out of her house straight into her car and drive away. I still believe in rational communication and objective reality. If the police fine her, then they are at fault and so is the law. If the neighbours disapprove, then they are misguided.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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Arbor Day: Street Trees of Seattle by Taha Ebrahimi | Trees as Cultural Landscape (at the community scale)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For example, one tree she learned about was planted as a barter between a family that helped a poorer one heat their house in a particularly cold winter. I first heard this concept expressed by David Barth at a presentation in 2004. Tree planting initiatives as entry points into greater community involvement. Page 1 , Pages 2-3.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I participated in a workshop on the plaza led by Project for Public Spaces and Scenic America in 2004 ( write up ). Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. It could create the potential for noise conflicts, as it abuts housing on C Street and North Carolina Avenue.)

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part one -- (in)FAQ and my influences

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

He then mentioned a New York Times Magazine article, " The Myth of Community Development ," by Nicholas Lemann about why community development corporations mostly didn't succeed at improving neighborhoods. Once you've one that, communicate out so it can be and is successfully diffused across communities.