Center for Community Progress
JUNE 6, 2022
At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
As pointed out in the Post article, if you want to develop a functioning if not thriving film community, you need to support its development, and a film festival is an element that does. Meetingpoint also develops digital communications platforms for organizations, with a focus on civic participation.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
It might be that more neighborhood embedded districts, like Eastern Market (" Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market ") or H Street have a better shot at developing the retail offer. Retail store development. But it has to be very focused.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Agglomeration economies and the biotech cluster in Cambridge Massachusetts.The Globe article explains why I am such a proponent of face to face, cluster development and agglomeration economies. Characteristics of cultural quarters From Montgomery (2003). Like "bump factor" instead of "agglomeration economies."
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. I have taught it every year since then. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The plans were not connected to anything.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
MARCH 11, 2020
When it came, in 2009, it was less deadly than expected, but that does not negate the possibility of a highly contagious disease with a case fatality rate equivalent to that of SARS in 2003, namely 10%. It is also important to remember that the Covid-19 pandemic occurs in the context of other developments.
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