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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Relatedly, in 2008, Saffron wrote that the city's newest hospital building was designed for the suburbs, not the city (" Penn got a trophy, not a triumph, in hospital design "). Instead, he emboldened the hospital's board to break away from the chain in 2009 and become independent.

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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 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. We did this in 2008 or 2009. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time. But I had the basic ideas down.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008).