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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). Public Health England, London, 57 pp. Covid-19 has revealed that the UK civil protection system is inadequate. The Guardian , 25 August 2020 - and subsequent updates.

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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

There, public libraries have been combined with workforce education delivery, and relocated to highly visible and architecturally startling buildings in popular commercial districts (" Idea Stores Ten Years On: The next generation ," Designing Libraries, “ When is the Library not a library? When it is the Idea Store ,” 2004, Guardian ).