Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements. 2011; Aday, et al.,

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

State law requires each board of county commissioners to levy and collect taxes as necessary to meet the county’s allocated share of the cost of mandated social services programs. Counties may also levy property taxes for any purpose for which the county is authorized by law to appropriate money, subject to voter approval.

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Social Services Laws Supervision Community Development 63

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). The plans were not connected to anything.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

That means that decision-making on land use and zoning, business issues, infrastructure development (roads, sewers, water, utilities, transit), technology (broadband Internet, etc.), Suburban – or so-called "edge" cities – are developing cultural infrastructure that, if not necessarily on par with what is downtown, is bound to impress.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Summary of federal and state law considerations Below is a summary of the major points from this post. Emergency loans for construction of new housing are authorized by the Housing Authorities Law (G.S. 1] Local government legal authority to offer home repair loans is limited under state law.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

My work in Baltimore County also led to the development of my "Signature Streets" concept, as a way of unifying thinking about streets, mobility, and aesthetics, not just in counties but in cities too. By focusing on key concepts that "I've developed" here's a list. This is a great explication of the network concept applied to biking.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

But with their falling into conservatorship while generating roughly one-quarter of a trillion dollars of net income losses from 2007 through 2011, faith in that business model understandably evaporated among policymakers.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

Quarantelli and Dynes (1970) developed a three-stage model whereby property norms are progressively abandoned as a neighbourhood descends into an outbreak of uncontrolled looting. 2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures.

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