The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance. The 2007 GAO report indicates this has been the historic practice in the title insurance business.

Housing 59

Housing Regulations Government Accountability 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These three pieces grew from each other, starting with Main Street but more about cities in general, how elected and appointed officials need to see themselves as destination managers, branding managers, asset managers, and risk managers. -- " "Town-City branding or 'We are all destination managers now ," (2005) -- "We are all brand managers now" came (..)

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

Communications 52

Communications Legislation Implementation Public Health 52

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

At the same time, traditional political movements—those linked to candidates or issue campaigns—have responded to opportunities presented by the new media environment by becoming hybrid organizations, centrally managed but enabling a relatively entrepreneurial base (Bimber, Flannagan, & Stohl, 2005). Political Communication 25 , 269–289.

Social Media 40

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots 40

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. 2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457. Register 2007. Bilham 2011.

Social Media 52

Social Media Communications Management Development 52