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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

Like in many states, a mix of ineffective laws, partisan divisions, and the allure of maintaining the status quo made reforming this local process difficult. I had a front-row seat into the harms of auctioning off tax-foreclosed properties , particularly low-value residential properties, but thought, what could be done?

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

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). News reporting of the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake: the role of common misconceptions.

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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

And that there should be ward-specific subcommittees of the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committees to put greater focus on ward specific improvements (this was something I wrote into the Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan I did for Baltimore County in 2010). Safe routes to school programs. It has since been significantly improved.

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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. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief. 2011; Aday, et al., Social Media in the United States.