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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Although the disaster of 6 th February 2023 produced, in fact, stronger shaking than this, it should not have caused 5,500 large buildings to collapse. A short bibliography of sources that deal with common faults in Turkish R/C construction is appended at the end of this article. the 'violent' level. [2] Ozmen, H.B.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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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)

The FHFA just recently announced the last such cross-subsidy changes in January 2023. 5] This was the policy of the FHFA when it was under the control of Acting Director Edward Demarco (2009 to very early 2014). See my article “The Policymaking Implications of Record-High Mortgage Origination Profits During the Pandemic.

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