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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

," 2023 -- " DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project ," 2022 -- " The Anacostia River and considering the bridges as a unit and as a premier element of public art and civic architecture ," 2014 -- " DC has a big "Garden Festival" opportunity in the Anacostia River ," 2014 -- " A world class water/environmental education center at Poplar Point as another (..)

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Engaging the Public on Climate Action

Barrett & Greene

My education about this critical topic began in 2014, when the City of Denver hired me to plan and facilitate community input sessions on the city’s proposed climate action plan update. Denver had produced a plan in 2007 and wanted to update it based on new data as well as to gauge public sentiment on setting more ambitious goals.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. It also requires participation across the spectrum of agegroups, ethnicities, genders, educational levels, orientations, and so on. The problem has been the abyss between planning, preparedness and practice.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The other element that was educational for me was the velocity of change resulting from the new station. and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014. Plus the economic impact on the other four areas, totaling in the billions of new construction. Velocity of positive economic change from public investment.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Register 2007. Communication Education 68(3): 393-398. However, the solution often lies in the context, not the problem. Alexander, D.E.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The RFI document 20 itself has given the FHFA an opportunity to explain what it did and why and to educate the public on various aspects of the topic. The prior risk-based adjustment to the GSEs’ G-fees had been set about a decade ago based on historic loss statistics at that time, with some revisions implemented in 2014.