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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Community', a word apparently absorbed into the English language from French after the Norman invasion, is the subject of numerous definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. ordinary people).

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How Community Partners and Local Governments Collaborate to Address Heirs’ Property

Center for Community Progress

At the Center for Community Progress, we’ve engaged with heirs’ property issues for years. Connecting the definition of “heirs’ property” to people and communities LISC creatively used publicly accessible data to identify markers that met an “heirs’ property profile.”

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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But other cities out West too, bigger like Boise, and smaller like Ennis, Montana or at trailheads in the Wasatch Front like Bell Canyon (" New trailhead expected to help grow one of Salt Lake County's more popular trails ," KSL) which has a great facility and definitely no concerns about the homeless because it is so remote.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While this criticism can be extended to most services delivered by bureaucratic organizations, it's definitely the case that students in public schools are "customers" too, and thinking about and addressing their comfort likely will have a positive impact on educational outcomes. It's the whole talent and knowledge versus regimentation thing.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the city has never developed the capacity to be particularly good at that, and definitely the energy to revitalize the communities in the Anacostia River community has been moribund ever since, which has been about 15 years. What a waste. A great example is the German International Building Exposition (IBA). Social Marketing 3.

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Transit safety and security: Broken Windows theory and reality | and the state of transit safety today

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Later he was fired because Mayor Guiliani didn't like how much attention that Bratton got by the press and public, and the policing strategy changed from data based to what is called Zero Tolerance Policing, which could be pretty oppressive and didn't engage the community.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It is considered one of America’s government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs), i.e., public-private hybrid corporations created by Congress and authorized to engage only in a narrowly-tailored set of activities. Finally, a recommendation is provided to address the fundamental flaw in the GSE design so that it can be permanently fixed.