article thumbnail

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat. But not much has been addressed since the plan was released in 2010! Climate change as an opportunity for civic engagement within parks and parks systems Sustainability education. national parks are trying to go carbon-free.

article thumbnail

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Louis regional transit planning process as a model for what needs to be done in the DC Metropolitan region " (2009) DC area transit planning and operations is an extreme example of gaps. The concept of a multi-regional and multi-state transit network is outlined in " The meta-regional transit network " (2009).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

10 Awesome Repurposed Emergency Bunkers

Emergency Management Degree Guide

The complex had air regeneration and water supply systems together with food and fuel supplies, and it could sustain as many as 3,000 people for three months in the event of a nuclear attack. The hotel opened in 2009 and didn’t provide any luxury amenities such as flat-screen TVs. Bunker Wohnen (Apartments) – Bremen, Germany.

2009 52
article thumbnail

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).

2013 52
article thumbnail

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). Since Brady left, the team has languished, really badly.

2007 52
article thumbnail

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.