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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

One result of having so many disciplinary perspectives is virtually to preclude consensus on the definition and classification of disasters and the concepts that go with them. Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Caffrey 2005.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. We did this in 2008 or 2009. But definitely eater-tainment. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time.