Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. Was this not a disaster?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

While the concept was spurred by my writings on the Purple Line light rail system coming to suburban Maryland, -- " (Big Hairy) Projects Action Plan(s) as an element of Comprehensive/Master Plans ," 2017 but also best practice programs I've across and not always written about. Transformational Projects Action Planning. Social Marketing 3.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. This all ended in 2008, when even the most ardent GSE defenders in Congress went quiet as the two companies collapsed into conservatorship. Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Over time, Minneapolis made complementary investments of its own, light rail was added to the program, and the city's decline was reversed.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

6 ) Nevertheless, all newly built MH units, even those with the very low cost, meet the building standards established by HUD, including energy efficiency (which leads to lower monthly operating costs). However, the concept of “quality” is somewhat vague – often meaning mainly on-the-surface finishes (e.g., percent per year.

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