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OUR CHALLENGE

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

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. I taught pandemic preparedness on the basis of his example for the next 12 years. Then it came to pass.

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Explaining the Cycle of Systemic Vacancy

Center for Community Progress

More than half of properties bought on those subprime loans provided by Wells Fargo between 2005 to 2008, for example, were subject to foreclosure. And they can practice vacant land stewardship and enable residents to creatively reclaim vacant spaces. Seventy-one percent of those were in predominately Black neighborhoods.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.