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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). Moreover, in many places the 'community' is dominated by the most powerful people in the area, or indeed by a single person.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. We did this in 2008 or 2009. 2006 and beyond, although what it's become is perhaps far beyond what I suggested, " Retail planning and Florida Market ," 2009. Anselm's is today.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Hospitals can be strong supporters of community development efforts, but it has to be designed into the program from the outset. In August [2022], the hospital system opened its affordable housing project Vía Sana in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Community engagement facilities.