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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. Was this not a disaster?

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds. percent” in 2008, according to a study by the Sagamore Institute. In fact, the effort was led by a former sporting goods executive, who put together a customer service management team. The team cut the online prices $5.00

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p. Disaster Prevention and Management 11(3): 209-213.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. It has been lightly edited and condensed for the web.

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Revisiting New Carrollton and the opportunity of transit oriented development: New train hall to be built at transit hub

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Today's Post reports, " New Carrollton train hall will unite transit lines, bike lanes, retail ," about a new train hall to be constructed at New Carrollton, the county's primary inner ring transit hub, with Metrorail, MARC, and Amtrak service now, and a Purple Line light rail connection whenever it manages to open. Note that Alex B./City

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management. Guest Contributors: Hai (David) Guo and Can Chen.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. I suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. Master Plan contract, 2019.