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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. The barriers to environmental sustainability in post-disaster settings: a case study of transitional shelter implementation in Haiti. The effects of stabilisation on humanitarian action in Haiti. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii]

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

the market expectation that the government would not let the companies fail) [2] rather than their own capital strength to sustain the near-government quality market access needed for their business model to work. However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014. government (i.e.,