Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In 2017, the responses to the Manchester Arena bombings and the Grenfell Tower fire were substantially criticised. Most striking is the abyss between plans and the ability to implement them with emergency response measures. Examples are the Stafford Act in the USA, the Disaster Management Act of India and Law 225 of 1992 in Italy.

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Coordinator Laws Disaster Response Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This was the only working repair stand and air pump on the stretch of the trail I rode, probably because it was both newer and sponsored by a law firm. But I guess they don't have a set of basic standards about what a regional bikeway network should look like and how it should be implemented.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

In recent years, New York State enacted the Uniform Partition of Heirs' Property Act (UPHPA) and the transfer-on-death deed (TODD) law, expanding protections for heir owners and creating an important tool to streamline estate planning and prevent tangled title issues (more detail on both laws follows).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Rather, the root cause has been the long-running blocking of reforms to reinstate price competition in housing and mortgage markets, which contrasts with other industries where such reforms have instead been successfully implemented in past decades. ” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S.

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Advocacy Housing Regulations Legislation 101

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program? Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," (2021) -- " St. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. This provision was not implemented and the result appears to have been thousands of avoidable deaths. Covid-19 has revealed that the UK civil protection system is inadequate. Murphy, S., Proctor and J.

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Communications Legislation Implementation Public Health 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 11, 2023

From the article: a state law decentraliz[ed] the Chicago school system and giving parents and educators the power to review school budgets and hire principals. The publication put a spotlight on schools where reform efforts were working, as well as those where reform efforts were running aground. Safe routes to school is a good example.

Education 52

Education Engagement Laws Operations 52

The Lowe Down

JANUARY 4, 2022

For the 2020-2021 academic year, public schools had to implement various policies regarding social distancing and masking to be in accordance with the new federal, state, and local laws. When COVID-19 hit the United States in the spring of 2020, many schools switched to remote learning for the remainder of that school year.

Education 52

Education Voting Laws Accountability 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

While two of the many significant administrative reforms needed to implement comprehensive GSE reform were undertaken in 2019-20,[[Specifically, (1) allowing them to build capital and (2) establishing a post-conservatorship regulatory minimum capital requirement. This constituted a major weakness of the proposals.]] mortgage system.]]

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Legislation Implementation Housing Regulations 90

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Low income fare discounts (" WMATA to consider lower cost/free transit pass for low income riders ," 2020) and incremental pass payment systems, which more transit agencies are starting to implement now too (" 13 Reasons Why Transit Agencies Around the World are Choosing Fare Payments-as-a-Service (FPaaS) Platforms for Fare Collection ," Masabi).

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Transportation Public Transportation Laws Campaign 52