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Revisiting New Carrollton and the opportunity of transit oriented development: New train hall to be built at transit hub

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.)

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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). Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. Was this not a disaster?

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) Necci 2019. UNDRR 2019. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2019. Krausmann, E.,

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. His substantive research topic interests include infrastructure (transportation) finance and policy, disaster finance, fiscal transparency, and financial accounting.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. I suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. Master Plan contract, 2019.

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The Inland Empire’s Industry Resilience

The Lowe Down

The 2001 recession was concentrated in tech; the 2008-9 recession in housing. <paramname=’animate_transition’ value=’yes’ /> This graph shows the differences in industry growth and employment between July 2019 and July 2020. There is, however, one spectacular outlier: transportation and warehousing.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Relatedly, in 2008, Saffron wrote that the city's newest hospital building was designed for the suburbs, not the city (" Penn got a trophy, not a triumph, in hospital design "). Transit adjacency is a plus for employee transportation. But I haven't seen a good transportation demand management study of hospital workers trip to work. (In