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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002. The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live." I was too parochial. Look at all the people going to a San Francisco Giants baseball game, and taking transit.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. Caffrey 2005. The gradual dissemination of social studies prompted the addition of the noƶsphere (Vernadsky 1945). Natural Disasters.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

WMATA's 2005 study, Development-Related Ridership Survey , found significant car trip reduction associated with the buildings in Metrorail station catchment areas, even in areas outside the core. To better leverage the value of proximity to transit , density bonuses of at least a couple stories should be a standard policy.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In fact, light rail here in Salt Lake was spurred by the 2002 Olympics, it's a small system and doesn't go to all the places it should, but it's complemented by a developing commuter rail program, a dinky streetcar line on the south side of Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, and a decent enough bus system.