Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Exercise Cygnus Report.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Though I am privileged to be the general manager, it’s your Metro, so please let us know how we can serve you better. I am empowering all staff members to own our service outcomes and to proudly represent America’s transit system. As you travel the region this fall, I hope you will choose Metro.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
EMPDC was created by the Barry Administration to be a CDC and to take over management of the market, but vendors and other stakeholders fought the idea, and the market remained managed by the city--for a time by a putative nonprofit--with different spaces, like North Hall (arts) and Sunday under the shed run by different entities.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 19, 2023
In DC, for awhile I was a Main Street manager in the Brookland neighborhood, which is home to Catholic University, Trinity Washington University and near Howard University, and I touted the potential of student spending as an element of commercial district revitalization. But that's not a unique failing. DC has plenty of assets.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 11, 2024
My mobility shed/mobilityshed and transit shed entry dates to 2006, " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept." A variant is that starting in 2006 I also wrote that the area's railroad passenger services should integrate into what I later called RACER, Railroad Authority of the Chesapeake Region.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Sixth, and belatedly, that the Silver Line taxed the system's infrastructure in ways that have made degradation of service quality standard practice (" More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core, " 2016).
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 4, 2024
4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. 24 Excessive executive compensation.
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