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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

can do to start working better together as a region (Baltimore Business Journal op-ed ," 2016), and I support efforts to do this for St. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021). Later I suggested this for Baltimore City and County (" Opinion: What Baltimore and D.C. Louis City and County (" St.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

After a similar experience in Mexico in 2016, I wanted to find a way to help developing countries implement affordable solutions to help predict and prepare for earthquakes, which is why I founded Grillo.”. At the time, some 300,000 people were injured , and 1.5 million became homeless during the 35-second-long tremor.