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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In 2017, the responses to the Manchester Arena bombings and the Grenfell Tower fire were substantially criticised. The 2004 Civil Contingencies Act has been sidelined throughout the Coronavirus disaster. Examples are the Stafford Act in the USA, the Disaster Management Act of India and Law 225 of 1992 in Italy.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). Murphy, S., Proctor and J. Murray 2020.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Every country needs a law that specifies the nature of the civil protection system and the basic details of how it works. Moore-Bick, M.

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Proposal to build new basketball arena in Downtown Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Comparing redevelopment outcomes in central Dallas tax increment financing districts ," Land Use Policy (2021) -- " Role of Sports Facilities in the Process of Revitalization of Brownfields ," IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering (2017) == Economic impact of individual spending by sports patrons.