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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. This provision was not implemented and the result appears to have been thousands of avoidable deaths. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004).

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?)