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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Intra-district shuttle systems Item # 5 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 2: Program items 1 - 9 ," discusses how to implement an integrated parking-shuttle system in Silver Spring, Maryland. Salt Lake already has a best practice program called Livable Streets , and they are implementing it across the city.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Mami Mizotori, the Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) stated in the mid-term report of the Sendai Framework that "progress [in implementing the SFDRR] has stalled and, in some cases, reversed". The United Kingdom does not lack talent and expertise in civil protection. that are pertinent to the field.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many.

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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)

Instead, despite the adoption of the new and much higher official regulatory capital requirement in 2020, the agency just delayed the implementation of the higher capital level for two years. And will any change be implemented quickly or perhaps incrementally over several years? Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30