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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

Mayor’s Order 2020-054 (District residents must "stay in their residences except to perform essential activities, engage in essential business, provide or obtain government services, or engage in certain authorized recreational activities not involving close contact with other persons"); N.Y. Brown Amusement Co. , 366, 371, 601 S.E.2d

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Despite this, the 2020 pandemic has obvious similarities with previous outbreaks of viral diseases and with many other kinds of disaster. Internationally, the greatest lesson of the previous SARS pandemic (2002-2004) was that international cooperation was the key to reducing its impact. IRDR Report 2020-01.

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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

It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009.