Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 11, 2020

US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. International Air Transport Association, Geneva, 14 pp. UK Government 2008. It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). In some quarters, it had an immediate effect (e.g.,

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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. From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The 2001 recession was concentrated in tech; the 2008-9 recession in housing. There is, however, one spectacular outlier: transportation and warehousing. The Inland Empire is usually more affected by recessions than Los Angeles County, according to the 2022 State of the Region report.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

During the period of the (post) 2008 recession, Walmart, recognizing that it achieved about as much growth as it could in the suburbs and exurbs, decided to focus on cities. And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening. But those facilities are all privately owned.

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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. Action Planning is a framework with five inter-connected components: 1.

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

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 9, 2019

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 22, 2024

How this will affect your organization: Previously while managing messages delivered to hosted quarantine, admins had to filter these messages under transport rules. When the user's device opens a document as read-only, the following workarounds are available if the user cannot immediately update their device to Version 2008 or later.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Over time, Minneapolis made complementary investments of its own, light rail was added to the program, and the city's decline was reversed. A signature initiative was the creation of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program, which was funded by a TIF bond.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

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. Climate change is increasing the magnitude and frequency of floods, storms, droughts, cold snaps and heatwaves.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Relatedly, in 2008, Saffron wrote that the city's newest hospital building was designed for the suburbs, not the city (" Penn got a trophy, not a triumph, in hospital design "). Transit adjacency is a plus for employee transportation. But I haven't seen a good transportation demand management study of hospital workers trip to work. (In

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

13] One estimate is the average cost to transport and site an MH structure, which is not part of the factory-cost calculation but is needed to make the comparison more apples-to-apples. 34] MH (and modular) units have to be transported from the factory to the lot upon which they are sited. for MH versus $143.83 ” Page 2.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But it didn’t actually come to fruition until, I think we got really serious about it back in about 2008 I believe, but prior to that, it was just kind of a line on a map.” Parsons Transportation Group provided construction management services, supervising the work performed by Skanska USA Civil West. did the work. million.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Now everything I wrote was rejected because it was at the peak of the post-2008 recession, and the planners were ordered to omit "any recommendations that cost money." From the article: State transportation officials are asking for public input on seven proposed transit routes that would connect Towson to downtown Baltimore.

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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? ").

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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.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 20, 2020

Front-line' workers include those who serve in hospitals, work in care homes, run public transport and deliver essential items. Plenty of evidence exists to show that disasters have a disproportionate impact upon poor and vulnerable people. Covid-19 is no different in this respect.

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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. Tri-Met sort of did that, as two stations Exposition (Japanese internment) and X (where the Kaiser flood killed dozens of people) serve areas where controversy occurred.

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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. Tri-Met sort of did that, as two stations Exposition (Japanese internment) and X (where the Kaiser flood killed dozens of people) serve areas where controversy occurred.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I joke that I didn't start understanding patience within community organizing until my 40s, when I realized a "fast tracked" transportation project takes 10 years. For example, in his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama argued his candidacy was an extension of the 20th-century Black freedom movement.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

Although the Biden Administration is actually accomplishing a lot, from investments in transportation to creation of technology hubs around the country, continued investment in broadband, etc. (" Joe Biden profile ," New Yorker ). Instead my exercise would be forced by my need for transport. Obamacare included Medicaid expansion.

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