Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

In the case of radioactive emission, it has been estimated that the top event could be 20 times greater than that of Chornobyl in 1986, which covered the entire continent with radioactivity. A consistent trait has been the failure to learn and implement lessons from past events, or indeed from good practice in other European countries.

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Human Transit

JANUARY 27, 2022

I remember riding a Santiago bus with Juan Carlos in the bad old days of 2004: Bus drivers raced down the street, cutting each other off in hopes of grabbing the passengers at each stop. I had been booked as a speaker at the conference, but Juan Carlos asked if I would come anyway, and do some events around the edges of the crisis.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The same is true of some of the earlier events, such as the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 1989. He looked gloomy and said that the most likely scenario would be a large destructive event in the nuclear or chemical industries, or perhaps a major infrastructure failure of some kind.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This may or may not be derived from real events or legitimate interpretations of them. For many citizens, ‘reality’ has become a construct based on some degree of consensus about what is happening. I still believe in rational communication and objective reality. Further reading Chomsky, N. Durkheim, E. The Division of Labour in Society. (

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

I first heard this concept expressed by David Barth at a presentation in 2004. To get people beyond the single event of planting a tree, it has to be built into the programming--greening beyond Earth Day. Unfortunately now both trees are gone--although I did let willow oaks reseed so we'll see what happens.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 25, 2022

Partners in the Park event in Poplar Grove Park. From the Salt Lake Tribune article: It was in 2001 that University of Utah President Bernie Machen (1998-2004) recognized and took ownership for the fact that, as an institution, the U was little involved on the west side.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The 2004 Civil Contingencies Act has been sidelined throughout the Coronavirus disaster. In the UK emergency planners do not manage the events they plan for. Now every country needs a basic law that broadly specifies the organisation and structure of the civil protection system, and how it works.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I participated in a workshop on the plaza led by Project for Public Spaces and Scenic America in 2004 ( write up ). Event space, Old Main Street Station, Richmond. Use the daypart model, account for seasons, city-wide events that you may or may not be able to leverage, and organize it by program area -- food, arts, etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

Personally, I think an arena is probably an acceptable choice, especially as it likely will increase transit ridership to events--the team estimates that the 70% of trips to the current arena will drop to 40%, with the much better transit location of Market East. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To commemorate this anniversary, I have compiled a ten-point Q&A to explain some of the history and key events of the two conservatorships, which reasonably lead to the conclusion that they won’t likely end anytime soon. Q1: What problem was the government trying to solve when it placed the two GSEs into conservatorship?

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. Bush in 2004. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

When it is the Idea Store ,” 2004, Guardian ). There, public libraries have been combined with workforce education delivery, and relocated to highly visible and architecturally startling buildings in popular commercial districts (" Idea Stores Ten Years On: The next generation ," Designing Libraries, “ When is the Library not a library?

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 20, 2020

Before the event, welfare was in decline, social relations were fractious in many places, and solidarity was under threat by exploitative forms of economics and hegemony. Disasters are participatory events. It has been evident for decades now that these two traits are unsustainable. Democracy in action (or not).

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