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Thanks Obama! (for saving my life)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Although the federal government hasn't stopped investment in science as discussed in the Michael Lewis book, The Fifth Risk , the government has become a lot more timid, which Lewis covers in his book on the response to covid, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Specifically, prices reached their pre-2008 peak in 2016 Q2 2 and then kept on rising at a strong pace 3 , with many analysts pointing to the shortage of new construction (both single and multi-family) as the major causal reason. percent range in the years prior to 2008, they now average around.50 After being in the 0.20 percent to 0.25

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. 7 Both the capital requirement and the needed level of market return were determined by the FHFA, then under the directorship of Mel Watt 8 (2014 to very early 2019).

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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There are other forms too (" A comprehensive list of funding sources for arts and culture ," 2019), like New York City's and the Zoo, Arts, Parks sales tax in Salt Lake County. mill tax for the Detroit Zoo they approved in 2008. Hamilton County, Ohio tried to create one but failed. But these are the basic ones. Conclusion.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

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. Atlantic Books, London, 256 pp.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In his book about the earthquake, the eminent Harvard medical doctor Paul Farmer [ii] noted that only 3.8% In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia. Downtown brings $2.3