AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Colonel Lamar Davis of the Louisiana State Police (LSP), recently summed up the law enforcement landscape, saying, “When you look at crime today, it’s not just a public safety or law enforcement problem—it’s a social problem.” We need to empower these agencies to be able to fulfill their missions of serving the public,” said Polega.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 3, 2025

Since 2005 when the World Health Organisation started to advocate serious viral disease planning the United Kingdom ran or participated in nine major simulation exercises on pandemics, some of them pan-European initiatives. Its tasks will be life-saving response, damage limitation, public safety and launching recovery.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

," 2024 The thing is to improve cities in the post industrial entertainment city paradigm, you have to do everything you can to attract patrons, and urk, even casinos (" As Bally's troubles mount, City Hall has to make sure casino is a winning bet ," Chicago Sun-Times ). -- " Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago ," 2024 - " (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

I wrote about it in a couple entries: -- " Every Litter Bit Hurts ," 2005 -- " Community cleanups (and other activities) as community building and civic engagement activities ," 2011 I would say it gave me a much better ground-based appreciation about the nature of the trash. This article is interesting.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

The thing is to improve cities in the post industrial entertainment city paradigm, you have to do everything you can to attract patrons, and urk, even casinos (" As Bally's troubles mount, City Hall has to make sure casino is a winning bet ," Chicago Sun-Times ). -- " Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago ," 2024 - " The unintended (..)

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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. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time. Program and police Eastern Market Metro Plaza/Metrorail Station.

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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. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).

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