Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 15, 2020

Since the stand-on-your-own-two-feet privations of the Second World War, there has been a gradual and sustained retreat from personal respomsability in favour of leaving the work to officialdom–and blaming officialdom when there are shortcomings in its response. The coup de grâce was the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

Development 52

Development Laws Budgeting Sustainability 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. They still haven't.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Development Management Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

Transportation 52

Transportation Social Media Fundraising Development 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

5 This is because the government has put considerable time and resources into developing lower downpayment alternatives that are still of acceptable credit quality to the government agencies that provide most mortgage credit today. But that 20 percent requirement comes from an earlier era. lower downpayment loans (sometimes down to 3 or 3.5

Housing 59

Housing Regulations Government Accountability 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

In fact, light rail here in Salt Lake was spurred by the 2002 Olympics, it's a small system and doesn't go to all the places it should, but it's complemented by a developing commuter rail program, a dinky streetcar line on the south side of Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, and a decent enough bus system.

Transportation 52

Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia. north of Toronto.

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Public Safety Management Housing 52

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

Social Media 40

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots 40

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