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Resilience is an illusion

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This is not to denigrate the work of resilience managers, as there is obviously much to be done to reduce the risk and impact of adverse events. Previously (Alexander 2013), I thought that Holling was wrong about resilience. After much pondering of the question, I have come to the conclusion that resilience is an illusion. Holling, C.S

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another aspect of the balkanized transit system in the DC area is that every jurisdiction has a different program for bus shelters--what Ivan Bennett, product design manager for the London bus program, calls "a lack of continuity." WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters.

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Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

So that makes a chief element of that idea realizable. Photo by alphanumeric. Seeing the Washington Post article " 3 maps for getting to the 2023 Washington, D.C., Cherry Blossom Festival ," about getting to the Cherry Blossom Festival, I had a similar thought.

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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management. But transportation is the biggest issue, better connections making it easier for people to go to other nearby districts, some of which (as I wrote about in the Eastern Market piece ) are more carefully managed to be constantly "on."

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And there is a lot of work on "violence interruption." I go back and forth about it, but there is some potential there. And I don't see things changing.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."