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Risk, resilience, and security – the three key functions of public safety technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

Public safety technology includes public safety platforms First, managing communications properly and responding to a crisis in an organised manner requires a holistic and well-coordinated approach. A World Meteorological Organization report found that deaths during natural disasters fell from 50,000 in the 1970s to less than 20,000 in 2010.

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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). Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020). inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). It's about speed versus access.

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Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Data analyzed by the Furman Center shows that the city’s lowest-density community districts take up 44.7 What’s more, the research finds that the lowest-density community districts added housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020. percent of the city’s population.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Park Pride , the city- and county-wide park support organization in Atlanta, sponsors an annual conference for park professionals and advocates (they need to do more to get park advocates to participate), which is a great way to communicate best practices and build the knowledge-base of the park community. I think that's reasonable.

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How ETH Library uses Apigee to make its open data holdings available to the public

Google Public Sector

Providing a single point of access for our customers To break down this silo view for customers, the ETH Library successfully introduced the approach of a single point of access for customers with the launch of the Knowledge Portal Discovery-Solution in 2010.

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How ETH Library uses Apigee to make its open data holdings available to the public

Google Public Sector

Providing a single point of access for our customers To break down this silo view for customers, the ETH Library successfully introduced the approach of a single point of access for customers with the launch of the Knowledge Portal Discovery-Solution in 2010.

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Supply Skepticism Revisited: What New Research Shows About the Impact of Supply on Affordability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Historically, the development of new housing in the city has been unevenly spread across neighborhoods, with the lowest-density community districts adding housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020. “That would really help me make the pitch to the Black and brown communities.”

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