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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Photo: Leah Hogsten, Salt Lake Tribune.

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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"Doors Open" events were pioneered in Europe , and are when a community's culture organizations band together to provide a coordinated schedule of events, usually over a weekend, where people get free access to various cultural sites and events, many of which are not normally open to the public. The Toronto Star even publishes an event guide.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

A central finding of the review is that current research illustrates the importance of structural, or macro, causes of homelessness, and the need for policy responses that ameliorate high housing costs, low incomes, and income inequality. Coordination challenges between agencies (e.g., 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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A Conversation with Crystal Loffler, President of the Office of Community Renewal

Center for Community Progress

I joined HCR in 2008. Many of these are small contracts that support housing and community development needs in specified service areas around the state. Within a couple of years, we saw activity from the approved land banks that included applications for various housing preservation and development grants.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. In these countries responsibility for coordinating local emergency actions is delegated to the regions. The local level. The voluntary sector.

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Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

So I started back in 2008 working part time as an activity leader in one of our after school programs. And from there, I went on and was able to serve in some full time capacity to include recreation facility manager and program coordinator. So our admin office house here, along with other recreation programs as well.