Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 3, 2025

On 12th October 2008 I attended a conference at which an epidemiologist stood up and said "My job is to tell you something you don't want to know, and ask you to spend money you haven't got on something you don't think is going to happen." It is by no means an isolated illustration. Therein lies a huge challenge for all of us.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. At that time, they designated 5 areas, invested a lot in urban design, public art, and sustainable mobility connections between the districts and Downtown. Liverpool very successfully participated back in 2008.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In " Making cycling irresistible in DC 2.0 " (2008) and " Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the action planning method " (2010), I mentioned the need to promote bicycling at the neighborhood scale, to increase biking take up. Too many people think biking is recreational or a joke in terms of sustainable mobility.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit.

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CRA Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This CDFI Fund article is a great resource that illustrates capitalization strategies and opportunities to help you support the sustainability and growth of a potential capital stack.It All these layers together make a community development loan possible. also shows how each investment option is considered.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

RTS did this when they were successful, so that when the 2008 recession hit, they were well placed to operate and survive financial setbacks that crippled other transit authorities who were not as well situated. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. Root Causes.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. Interestingly, since the first edition in 2008, pandemics have been regarded as the leading risk in terms of their probability of occurrence and seriousness of consequences. Was this not a disaster?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

But by then, other cities, especially San Francisco ( Sustainable Mobility and Climate Action Strategy ) and New York City ( World Class Streets: Remaking New York City's Public Realm ) far outspanned DC in terms of improving public spaces. Transformational Projects Action Planning. They remade it into a full park circle. Social Marketing 3.

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The Lowe Down

MAY 14, 2023

In retort, Los Angeles stated that the significant loss in business resulted from the 2008 recession rather than administrative negligence. To conclude, Ontario Airport has delivered sustained success since the return of control to the Inland Empire. of revenues.

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Social Pinpoint

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, consistent and ongoing community engagement can require significant investment. Universities are always thriving to collaborate with council as it usually generates authentic and impactful engagement that would benefit the community and city stakeholders.

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Emergency Management Degree Guide

APRIL 26, 2013

The complex had air regeneration and water supply systems together with food and fuel supplies, and it could sustain as many as 3,000 people for three months in the event of a nuclear attack. In 2008, they launched the “Concrete Mushrooms” project, proposing that the structures be transformed into hostels.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Not just high quality transit, but support for sustainable mobility--walking and biking. Flickr photo by John Smatlak. The biggest thing is to double down on the elements that make urban living worthwhile--high quality urban design and placemaking, things to do, access to cultural institutions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 25, 2022

After the 2008 recession, they dropped their primary outreach program. And at the University of Maryland, community programs serving area communities seem to wax and wane depending on the university's economic circumstances. That's why I find the University of Utah University Neighborhood Partners program to be pretty interesting.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. The revenue structure varies greatly among 411 municipalities.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

MARCH 16, 2021

2008)] and Matter of W-G-R- , both of which were precedential decisions issued by a three-member panel of the BIA, the BIA's determination on both counts is entitled to Chevron deference."). The relevant statute in that case was § 241 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. Lynch , 842 F.3d 3d 1125, 1137 (9th Cir. Att’y Gen. , 3d 399, 405 (11th Cir.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. The difference between the two worlds One of the problems I had with academic writing was actually sustaining interest in my own projects long enough to get all the way through the academic publishing pipeline.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

Post-2008, with all the reforms enacted via the Dodd-Frank Act (e.g., 11] In terms of making homeownership as affordable as sustainably possible, many point out that the settlement might make the closing costs for the buyer higher, not lower, as at this time buyers do not overtly pay anything. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We did this in 2008 or 2009. It should support sustainable modes (biking, walking, transit improvements) as well as parking. See item #10 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 3: Program items 10-18 " (2017), for the concept. I was involved in helping "to save" that area c.

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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?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

When I worked for Baltimore County in FY2010, as a bicycle and pedestrian planner, simultaneously the master plan update was going on, and I was asked to submit a briefing paper on transit and sustainable mobility. Had I known that at the time, I would have suggested that too.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. The barriers to environmental sustainability in post-disaster settings: a case study of transitional shelter implementation in Haiti. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii] ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. Haiti After the Earthquake. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

And as one of the early citizen directors of BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, used to say about planning for transit expansion--don't put it off, because construction costs only go up.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Ironically, they were built on a parking lot that was created by the Capitol Hill Baptist Church in the 1970s, by tearing down a beloved neighborhood restaurant, Mary's Blue Room (" Losing my religion ," 2008).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I think I was ahead of many of those scholars. -- " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept ," (2008, originally 2006) 2. Sustainable mobility platform : this builds off transit to include urban design and multiple modes. I made the point that city biking has different issues from a suburban or rural trail.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2025

As I wrote before, I'd rather see a reconfiguring of HUD around Cities, Regions and Urban Ecology (sustainability), merging in some parts of the EPA and DOE smart growth operations, local and regional Economic Development aspects of the Dept. of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Sustainability, and refigure the departments some.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010). Since Brady left, the team has languished, really badly.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

the market expectation that the government would not let the companies fail) [2] rather than their own capital strength to sustain the near-government quality market access needed for their business model to work. This included: Developing an updated capital requirement broadly consistent with post-2008 bank regulatory requirements. [9]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series. performance and composition, performance art, puppetry, acrobatics and circus arts, and socially engaged and/or sustainable performing arts-based practices The artist JR's " Giant Picnic " across the US-Mexican border.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series. performance and composition, performance art, puppetry, circus arts, and socially engaged and/or sustainable performing arts-based practices The artist JR's " Giant Picnic " across the US-Mexican border.

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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.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. Sustainable mobility. It's the flip side of Social Psychology of Organizations. An urban regime can be preliminarily defined as the informal arrangements through which a locality is governed (Stone 1989).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

Introduction Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (F&F), the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), were placed into conservatorship in September 2008 at the height of the Great Financial Crisis, when the markets lost confidence in them. For example, see the September 2008, “Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

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