Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 19, 2023
In 2010 and 2012 I wrote about such initiatives for the Detroit Zoo (actually located in Oakland County) and the Detroit Institute of Arts, which were caught up in the city's bankruptcy. Brooks Patterson (" The rise of Oakland County is built on Detroit's Fall ") died).
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
AUGUST 20, 2021
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. As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all.
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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] Q1: What problem was the government trying to solve when it placed the two GSEs into conservatorship?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
Office buildings with retail on the ground floor, focused on organizations serving the federal government. DC's been pretty fortunate that it regained its value as a place to locate businesses and to live. But the development that occurred was pretty homogeneous. Residential buildings with retail on the ground floor.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
Center for Community Progress
MARCH 16, 2023
After New York passed this landmark land bank-enabling legislation, I worked with County and local officials to help establish the Broome County Land Bank in 2012, one of the first land banks in the state.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
JULY 29, 2019
2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). Anomie and shortage of disaster governance. Haynes 2012. Early views of social media (e.g.
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