Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. It is a role that is seldom sustained enough to make a thorough-going difference.

Management 92

Management Operations Laws Regulations 92

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is impossible to substantiate, but goods manufactured in a donor country, brought to Haiti by transport from that country and distributed by personnel from the same country would do little to stimulate the Haitian economy. For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii]

Social Media 69

Social Media Public Affairs Development Security 69

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

Third, fwiw, the Metrorail system and Prince George's County have failed similarly in terms of planning for high frequency transit service to the National Harbor development (" Backwardness of transportation and land use planning: National Harbor, Prince George's County, Maryland | Why isn't high capacity transit access required from the outset? ").

Transportation 52

Transportation Development Economic Development Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., Transformational Projects Action Planning. They remade it into a full park circle. Design Method rather than Rational Planning 2.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development 52

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. His substantive research topic interests include infrastructure (transportation) finance and policy, disaster finance, fiscal transparency, and financial accounting.

Local Government 40

Local Government Financial Management Budgeting Public Affairs 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. We did this in 2008 or 2009. Leadenhall Market, London Parking, parking, parking: Create a transportation management district. Create a transportation management district.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Development Management Transportation 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.

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Public Safety Management Housing 52

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. This entry became very long, so I broke it up. I made the point that city biking has different issues from a suburban or rural trail. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

There were a couple of other reports too: DC at the Crossroads: Transportation Choices Today Could Bring Pleasant Living, Less Traffic Tomorrow by the local chapter of Friends of the Earth, and reports for the Financial Control Board by Alice Rivlin.) I felt if I didn't get involved my riot-surviving neighborhood would continue to languish.

Transportation 52

Transportation Community Development Housing Urban Planning 52

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.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Transportation Housing 52

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.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security 52

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.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security 52