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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

I made a presentation about this at the University of Delaware public policy school in early 2010, " Metropolitan Mass Transit Planning presentation " (link to presentation within). inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). Another related concept is intra-district versus inter-district transit (" Making the case for intra-city (vs.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). 2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures. Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There is no such thing as societeigh", she said in that false plummy, slightly hectoring, distinctly overbearing voice (Tice 2010). In any manageable geographical unit there are likely to be associations of citizens: faith groups, voluntary associations; recreational, political and business groups. Encyclopedia of Crisis Management.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The current edition came out in 2011.). Indeed, if public leaders and managers find that a planning approach gets in the way of strategic thinking, acting, and learning, they should drop the approach and try a different one. And where does a sense of purpose come from? Rich (rather than thin or superficial) description. References.

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October 2016 | Studying Networks Over Time, By H. Brinton Milward

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

2010), the typical network paper sent to JPART is a study of one or a small number of public and nonprofit networks over a short span of time–typically the length of time it took the researcher to conduct the network survey. How can we study the life-cycle of a network? Carpenter, D.P. Princeton University Press. Isett, K.R.,

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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

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.