Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions.

Communications 52

Communications Legislation Implementation Public Health 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

Transportation 52

Transportation Social Media Fundraising Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.)

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

WMATA's 2005 study, Development-Related Ridership Survey , found significant car trip reduction associated with the buildings in Metrorail station catchment areas, even in areas outside the core. and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Parks And Recreation Housing 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

Press Release 52

Press Release Housing Regulations Implementation 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

The ten-year average from 2014 to 2023 was 6.4 Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent. A non-paywalled summary can be found at: [link]. In both documents, see the section titled “Financing the Home Purchase.”

Housing 59

Housing Regulations Government Accountability 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," (2018) -- " Yes the neighborhood will change, but it will take 10-25 years ," (2018) -- " House flipping as reproduction of space ," (2018) -- " Q: Could a community land trust help solve D.C.s gentrification crisis?

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g.

Transportation 40

Transportation Campaign Public Health Laws 40

Librarian.net

JANUARY 12, 2025

average read per month: 11.25 average read per week: 2.6 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

Management 52

Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Transit stations as marketing touchpoints and as a design product: i this line of inquiry started when DC let a new bus shelter contract in 2005. The problem is it hasn't been effectuated very much at the neighborhood scale: -- " Intra-neighborhood (tertiary) transit revisited because of new San Diego service ," (2016) 4.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. He attributed it to rapid population growth.

Social Media 52

Social Media Communications Management Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

. -- Washington Metro: Deficits by Design , Brookings, 2004 -- Keeping Metro On Track: The Federal Government's Role in Balacing Investment With Accountability at Washington's Transit Agency , Brookings, 2005 -- " Mass Transit: Issues Related to Providing Dedicated Funding for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority , GAO, 2006 Also a statement (..)

Transportation 52

Transportation Budgeting Operations Government 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

This was described on the one hand as unfair, since it relied on overcharging low-risk borrowers “who had played by all the rules” and, on the other hand, as unduly incenting bad loans at the GSEs (by charging too little for high-risk loans) in a quasi-replay of the lead up to the mortgage bubble of 2005 to 2008.

Government 52

Government Housing Implementation Legislation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

From the 2005 New York Times article " Splendor in the Grass ": It was lunchtime at Bryant Park, and thousands of office workers were gathered beneath the emerald veil of trees. Keith Bedford for The New York Times. A man and a woman: Minding the gender gap in Bryant Park. But overall in the US, such services haven't fared too well.

Urban Planning 52

Urban Planning Transportation Budgeting Voting 52