Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

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. The risk here is that any amendment to or substitution of the Act will merely tinker with the works, rather than effecting the fundamental changes in the system that are needed.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

One study counted 54 building collapse deaths and 122 injuries in Kampala, Uganda, between 2004 and 2008. Incidents of building collapse are worryingly common in large African cities. Another identified 112 cases in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1978 to 2008. Cities in Ghana and Kenya, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

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. But there are many others. Note sometimes it is poor planning, lack of coordination, etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2024

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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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 13, 2016

It has been recognized as a model of community collaboration, including by the White House Council for Community Solutions. Bevan Baker has been the Commissioner of Health in Milwaukee since 2004. The three main prongs of the strategy are: An aggressive advertising campaign targeted to teens. The use of evidence-based sex education.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

The field, which straddles entertainment, economics, sociology, real estate, time-and-motion studies, architecture and planning, was born at midcentury, when developers of outdoor amusements began seeking the most profitable means of pulling people away from the television and out of the house.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

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. The helped family planted a special tree in the neighbor's planting strip.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. When it is the Idea Store ,” 2004, Guardian ). I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Bush in 2004. These efforts build on previous White House efforts to connect with users across a range of social media sites and make the experience of the speech appropriate to each platform. And finally, keep engaging with the White House: We’re listening” (Goldman). Bush administration in 2002. No small feat.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Later I summarized it as building better housing for low income residents was important but not the way to improve the local microeconomy. Homogeneous housing and moderate to upper income, insurance, and conventional financing available. The URL is long because at the time I didn't appreciate the need for brevity.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] And, as mentioned above, the Biden administration has not even begun to execute on any such exit plan.

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