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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. It lacks a national emergency operations centre. For the ops people in Rome there is a cluster of five emergency operations rooms in a substantial purpose-built complex. In The Hague there is a compact but technologically advanced operations centre.

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Recreation planning and financing failure in Philadelphia: 11 of 12 public swimming pools have closed

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association.") But I think another is failure to coordinate between the Schools and Recreation agencies, and not having an MOU like Baltimore County. But also schools. One issue is money.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

authorities say that in the 1980s, he commanded a ruthless crack cocaine operation, raking in an estimated $2 million a week and fueling a deadly epidemic that plunged D.C. Besides all the deaths, in another way, his is a tragic story, because clearly he had the smarts to be a very successful businessman.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

No matter how large a disaster is, it is a local affair because that is where the theatre of operations invariably lies. COBRA, the national 'nerve centre' for directing major emergency actions in the UK, is a relatively small entity that does not match up to the specifications of a well-endowed national emergency operations centre.

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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. It operates Thursday-Sunday in two local business districts.

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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 Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). Get the parks working together and coordinated. And if there is a lot of kid visitation, well kids don't spend money. I can't think of a worse walk.

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National Park Service as operator of local parks in DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I know the argument that because the District of Columbia is the National Capital, park and urban design features should be operated by the federal government as an element of beautification. Note sometimes it is poor planning, lack of coordination, etc. And in cities like Brasilia and Canberra, which are dedicated national capitals.