Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004).
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
APRIL 29, 2024
For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent. Post-2008, with all the reforms enacted via the Dodd-Frank Act (e.g., 10] See [link]. [11]
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.
Public Policy Blog
JANUARY 3, 2014
Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). This incredible exponential growth of the movement was likely a consequence of the movement’s decentralization (Brafman & Beckstrom, 2006).
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