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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. But not much has been addressed since the plan was released in 2010! Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) High water levels in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Fortunately this is an infrequent occurrence.

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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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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)

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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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

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Further, as protest movements grow more diverse, so must our theoretical framework and investigations of the nature of protest movements in online spaces (Earl, 2010; Earl, J. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief. 2011; Aday, et al.,

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10 Awesome Repurposed Emergency Bunkers

Emergency Management Degree Guide

The hotel opened in 2009 and didn’t provide any luxury amenities such as flat-screen TVs. The concept proved so successful that the franchise has turned its attention to more urban areas, while the original site was converted into a museum in 2010. Tea House on Bunker – Vreeswijk, Netherlands. Image Source. Image Source.

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