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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)

Written in a neutral regulatory tone, the document largely validates these criticisms via facts and analysis, and then proposes extensive recommendations for change. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. 19] It peaked in 2004 at just over $1.6

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Arbor Day: Street Trees of Seattle by Taha Ebrahimi | Trees as Cultural Landscape (at the community scale)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Ebrahimi went for long walks, began re-connecting and re-looking at the natural world, and began documenting street trees at the neighborhood scale. I first heard this concept expressed by David Barth at a presentation in 2004. Although many places don't necessary celebrate Arbor Day on the last Friday of April. During the pandemic Ms.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The Civil Contingencies Act of 2004 is of debatable value, as evidenced by the fact that it was in effect abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic emergency. The risk here is that any amendment to or substitution of the Act will merely tinker with the works, rather than effecting the fundamental changes in the system that are needed.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. This document is periodically updated and the latest edition came out in 2020. Every country needs a law that specifies the nature of the civil protection system and the basic details of how it works.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The velocity of change from NoMA Metrorail station was so significant it convinced me that the public investment with the fastest ROI, at least when done right, is transit. And that super shifted my interest towards transit and economic development , c. It's expensive to build. Many transit oriented development projects are built in the wrong place.