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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The reality is that government buildings don't generate a lot of spillover business development, as I discussed in another entry. government offices, DGS said. Notably, most of the newest developments are city properties--the new DCHD building and a building for the Department of Health. The city will continue to pay $1.46

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. McCaw 2007. PLoS One 2007:2(11): e1220, 1-6. US Homeland Security Council 2005. UK Government 2008.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. Anomie and shortage of disaster governance. Gordon 2018.