The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To commemorate this anniversary, I have compiled a ten-point Q&A to explain some of the history and key events of the two conservatorships, which reasonably lead to the conclusion that they won’t likely end anytime soon. A very short synopsis is: From 2008 to 2012, the net worth of the two GSEs was wiped out by GFC-era losses.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The same is true of some of the earlier events, such as the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 1989. He looked gloomy and said that the most likely scenario would be a large destructive event in the nuclear or chemical industries, or perhaps a major infrastructure failure of some kind. Was this not a disaster?

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. A consistent trait has been the failure to learn and implement lessons from past events, or indeed from good practice in other European countries.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 25, 2022

After the 2008 recession, they dropped their primary outreach program. Partners in the Park event in Poplar Grove Park. And at the University of Maryland, community programs serving area communities seem to wax and wane depending on the university's economic circumstances.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 20, 2020

By 2008, the scenario was more or less complete, with the exception of the recovery phase, which has remained difficult to predict ever since (recovery from the 1918-1920 pandemic took about five years, but it included recovery from the First World War and it led into the Great Depression of 1929). Disasters are participatory events.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I participated in a workshop on the plaza led by Project for Public Spaces and Scenic America in 2004 ( write up ). We did this in 2008 or 2009. Event space, Old Main Street Station, Richmond. WRT event planning, create and distribute an annual calendar of events. It laid the groundwork for connecting civic assets.

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