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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). But how does this translate into community resilience? However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014).

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. 19 This support was translated into extreme lobbying power in Congress, which ensured that the two companies did not lose the subsidies.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ). It ran for a week in the city's center, with demonstrations and presentations and had many thousands of patrons. Exhibit: The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ). It ran for a week in the city's center, with demonstrations and presentations and had many thousands of patrons. Exhibit: The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley.