Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses." Kerslake, B.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For more than a decade I suggested that DC create a Transportation Commission, comparable to the Zoning Commission, to provide greater opportunities for oversight and involvement, both for elected and appointed officials, and citizen members. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

. -- " Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part One: Rearticulating the system of health and wellness care East of the River ," 2018 -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This school is located a couple blocks from our DC house, and for the first few years after it opened, they made a big effort to do outreach to the neighborhood, to invite residents to school events, etc., Students, parents, and teachers participating in a clean up of the school grounds, Wasatch Elementary School, Salt Lake. but it fell off.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2018, I wrote a piece about the attempt to extend the RFK campus lease, but at the behest of the "Washington" NFL team, which has been based in Suburban Prince George's County for a couple decades. -- " Yes, modify and extend the RFK Campus lease; No, don't do it for the Washington Redskins football team " The RFK campus is on the right.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. Although the residential housing market continues to be hot, the commercial property might be a concern in the future as a result of the possible working modality change.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Five are under the city-- Liberty, Pioneer, Fairmont, Jordan, and Sunnyside, and one, Sugar House, is owned by the city and county both, and run by an independent authority (I'm on the board). So it's the "entertainment city" idea but extending it to many more elements, making work and other spaces "more fun," engaging and active.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?);

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Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

Accountability 52

Accountability Advocacy Housing Security 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Instead of contracting with consultants like most planning departments, Salt Lake City has developed a "civic engagement unit" that works across all city agencies for public projects (transportation and planning mostly, but other agencies too. Ward Halls/Democracy House.

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Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Engagement Advocacy 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Council to decriminalize fare evasion in 2018. The solutions aren’t easy for Metro or its transit police department, which has been accused of disproportionate enforcement against Black residents, leading the D.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. Out of region visitors spend on lodging, food, and transportation. Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 Freeway capping. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades.

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Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Now the Intermodal Center just houses intercity bus services. -- Rio Grande Plan The plan proposes a tunnel to redirect the railroad passenger services back to the station, as well as a rerouting of the Trax Green Line, with railroad service in a tunnel behind the station and light rail service in front of the station.

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Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Development 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is impossible to substantiate, but goods manufactured in a donor country, brought to Haiti by transport from that country and distributed by personnel from the same country would do little to stimulate the Haitian economy. doi: 10.1108/DPM-08-2018-0263 An evidence-based urban DRR strategy for informal settlements.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Nearly all of today’s mansion taxes were enacted or expanded between 2018 and 2023. Real estate transfer tax in Chicago.

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