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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But not much has been addressed since the plan was released in 2010! Plus, most state and local sites don't do a very good job of putting their documents online to begin with One of my ideas is to develop an online database of such historical documents. for interpretation. The quality of today's brochures pale by comparison.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In recent years, the System has been subject to growing criticism that it has been inadequately supporting the housing and community development mission given to it by Congress. 27 This development is perhaps the most damning evidence as to how political the FHLBanks are. Part 1 of this two-part paper describes this more fully.

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ACTION, DATA, EVOLVE! 3 Ground Breaking Moments from the CPBB (Un)Conference

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

By 2009/2010, ICMA, GFOA, NLC and the Alliance for Innovation urged us to broaden our ability to serve many local governments surviving the Great Recession. This is key to the overall vision – again, back in 2009 we had 10 communities launch the movement… now, over 120 are actively reshaping their communities with PBB.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). There is no such thing as societeigh", she said in that false plummy, slightly hectoring, distinctly overbearing voice (Tice 2010).

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Quarantelli and Dynes (1970) developed a three-stage model whereby property norms are progressively abandoned as a neighbourhood descends into an outbreak of uncontrolled looting. The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010).

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements. 2011; Aday, et al.,