Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 9, 2019

One result of having so many disciplinary perspectives is virtually to preclude consensus on the definition and classification of disasters and the concepts that go with them. There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. We thank the commissioners for their service to our county.” John Kelly/The Washington Post) I'm saddened by this. These debacles in MoCo have been the subject of multiple Metro section articles.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

But the city has never developed the capacity to be particularly good at that, and definitely the energy to revitalize the communities in the Anacostia River community has been moribund ever since, which has been about 15 years. What a waste. A great example is the German International Building Exposition (IBA).

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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). There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths."

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