Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
JUNE 9, 2019
The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Associating particular kinds of disaster with classes of event obviates the need to restate basic information every time we deal with such phenomena. Caffrey 2005. Alexander, D.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
The transit network concept I worked out is based on how Arlington County, Virginia, in their 2005 Trasnportation Plan, defined a Primary and a Secondary Transit Network. As any transit user knows, once in a great while every transfer works beautifully, with little if any waiting (e.g., Tertiary Network concept.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
For frequent, new and visiting customers, we are piloting new signage, beginning with putting service information at street level at Metro Center. In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
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. It could be on screens, as an app, as part of an integrated kiosk-information network. They still haven't.
Public Policy Blog
JUNE 16, 2013
As Arquilla and Ronfeldt explain: This doctrinal proposal relates to our efforts to flesh out a four-part vision of how to prepare for information-age conflict (Arquilla and Ronfeldt, 1997). Image: Faggard, 2013.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 10, 2023
Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. Bush, when the administration and the Federal Reserve proposed to limit the size of the investment portfolios of the two companies in 2005.
Public Policy Blog
JANUARY 3, 2014
As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements. Social Media Definitions.
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