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Rayful Edmond's death reminds me of my introduction to Washington, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Then an open-air drug market called The Strip, Edmonds employees once stashed drugs in abandoned houses here and sold them at a clip of 30 transactions a minute.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The Civil Contingencies Act of 2004 is of debatable value, as evidenced by the fact that it was in effect abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic emergency. In these countries responsibility for coordinating local emergency actions is delegated to the regions. Command and control are being replaced by coordination and collaboration.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A big thing was parking and mobility coordination, for example the way Hyattsville does it for their Arts District. -- offer a joint delivery service from the market at least within the neighborhood as a basic transportation demand management measure. I mentioned it over time. It laid the groundwork for connecting civic assets.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The third is preserving housing. Get the parks working together and coordinated. I think there are two different approaches that could break the logjam, one would be the designation of this area as a National Heritage Area , where NPS helps to coordinate a variety of federal, state, local and private assets in an integrated fashion.

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National Park Service as operator of local parks in DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

WRT local governments not being good at providing extranormal service see " The Life and Death of a Masterpiece: What went wrong with a 1988 park by the late Dan Kiley, and what can we learn from its imminent demolition? ," Landscape Architecture , 2004. Note sometimes it is poor planning, lack of coordination, etc.