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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. He went on to promulgate a law, the Coronavirus Act of March 2020, that is perhaps even more 'extreme', although mitigated by its incomprehensibility.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Emergency management is still languishing in the doldrums in the United Kingdom. Murray 2020.

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Commercial district activation issues in smaller communities: Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Some residents and business owners don't like the event, And that includes someone who had been the commercial district revitalization manager for the district back in the 2000s. As a Main Street manager, I would be ecstatic with this kind of regular weekend patronage. Bridge Street, Phoenixville. I disagree.

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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management. You can never stop (" MAIN STREET NICHES IN A MASS SALES WORLD ," Neil Peirce, 2004). Even more than the Atlas Theater rehabilitation. While important, it doesn't attract enough patrons to carry an entire corridor.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

Before Ohio’s new county land banks were conceived, the main goal from 2004 to 2006 was to respond to local leaders’ demand for speedier tax foreclosure of long tax-delinquent vacant and abandoned lands. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007. The trend continued for the next several years.

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Interesting study on litter focuses on the brand of the trash

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

We used it to map the location, materials, type and, where possible, brands of 43,187 items of litter collected across the UK in 2020. I didn't want to do it--because the litter just comes back--but it was important to respond to the expressed needs of the volunteer committee members. of all items.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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