Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
MAY 6, 2024
Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. No matter how large a disaster is, it is a local affair because that is where the theatre of operations invariably lies. 1] Domoto, A.,
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 21, 2022
In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. It lacks a national emergency operations centre. For the ops people in Rome there is a cluster of five emergency operations rooms in a substantial purpose-built complex. In The Hague there is a compact but technologically advanced operations centre.
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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 11, 2024
It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts. Additionally, other recommendations were made to update aspects of how the FHLBanks operate to reflect the current environment rather than what existed many decades ago.
AWS Public Sector Blog
APRIL 13, 2023
This origin story traces back to the founding of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) service in 2004, which is now regarded as one of the fundamental pieces of cloud computing technology. billion through 2022 to meet customer demand for cloud computing services, according to a new economic impact study (EIS) from AWS.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
Cities cost money to operate. I argue that that section of the Metro operates "monocentrically" while the overall design of the system is polycentric, which doesn't help the city so much--BART is a great example of a polycentric system, although SF doesn't really need it because it has its own rail-based transit system.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
The Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). And if there is a lot of kid visitation, well kids don't spend money. They often bring their own food, etc. ( I can't think of a worse walk.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 19, 2023
This let the system get sloppy in terms of finance, budgeting, and understanding why "WMATA is so successful at funding operations from farebox revenue." But there are over 20 operators of the various services, including private operators of bus lines. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. Step 3: Fix the Funding.
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