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The Vajont Dam Disaster, Sixty Years On

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The intended purpose of the dam was to regulate the flow of water to electrical turbines on the Piave River by ensuring a supply at times when the main river was at low flow. The theatre performances drew upon a rich heritage of books, studies, memoirs, plays and music that over the years has commemorated the Vajont tragedy.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). percent of their book with a CLTV of 80-90 percent, with almost all of it (4.2 The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history.

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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)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. 3 In that report, the FHFA disclosed that the average G-fee across all products was 0.46

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions ," (2012) -- " (Even more on) ANCs (Advisory Neighborhood Commissions in DC) ," (2010) -- " Setting up DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions for success ," (2022) (lots of links within) -- " "Networked solutions" for some problems with ANCs in DC ," (2011) -- " Dumb.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A few years ago when I was doing research on public markets I came across the book Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food and Community , which posits a more locally controlled and democratically involved regional food system, as opposed to the one we have, dominated by huge corporations. It's an interesting book.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the most important books I read in the late 1980s, pre-Internet, was Maximarketing. Another good book was the Marketing Imagination. And I have to temper my thinking about this too. Its basic point was that you have to focus on all channels, not just some, selectively. That's where cities are.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

Power is a difficult concept to study but if you are tracking outcomes, it becomes a little bit easier as James Battista (2011) states in his paper Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. How power can be utilized as a stalemate or “punishment” reads like a list ripped from an old high school year book or a future Mean Girls script.