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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. million people were displaced from their homes, but the earthquake destroyed more than people and their homes: it dealt a near fatal blow to government. The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 Nevertheless, there were some spectacular failures.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And Maglev and the Central Business District, which is another inducement for a Height increase, one completely unseen by DC's planning and economic development officials (" DC, Transformational Projects Action Planning, and the Baltimore-Washington Maglev project ," 2021). Social urbanism and equity planning.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. For years I wrote that the DDOT safety dashboard was crap (" DC DDOT transportation access portal doesn't really say anything ," 2010). Government has a bias for inaction. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter.