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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The velocity of change from NoMA Metrorail station was so significant it convinced me that the public investment with the fastest ROI, at least when done right, is transit. And that super shifted my interest towards transit and economic development , c. It's expensive to build.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: I haven't written about this being discussed in a number of places like DC (" D.C.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period. Internationally, the greatest lesson of the previous SARS pandemic (2002-2004) was that international cooperation was the key to reducing its impact.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004. ” Take a look at previous #SOTU (2009 – present) observations from Pew Center for Research. First president to deliver the speech in primetime was Lyndon Johnson in 1965. First live webcast on the Internet happened in the President George W. Why or why not?