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More remonstration about the molasses of change: Transit planning, Baltimore County, Maryland and Towson

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Baltimore Regional Transit Expansion Map, 2002. Now everything I wrote was rejected because it was at the peak of the post-2008 recession, and the planners were ordered to omit "any recommendations that cost money." Had I known that at the time, I would have suggested that too. That could have been accomplished already.

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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. ) 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. Alexander, D.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Front-line' workers include those who serve in hospitals, work in care homes, run public transport and deliver essential items. Internationally, the greatest lesson of the previous SARS pandemic (2002-2004) was that international cooperation was the key to reducing its impact. Covid-19 is no different in this respect.

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