Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 18, 2022

I doubt it was to deal with the heat specifically. More for design aesthetics probably, but increasingly these kinds of measures should be taken within parks and place planning, to make places more resilient wrt heat and sun. The Washington Post has three articles today on the topic: -- " U.K. Then the lights went out."

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

It is something that needs to be dragged onto the political agenda as a matter of extreme urgency, a matter to be treated, at last, with the seriousness it demands. In addition, more than 60 universities teach and research on topics (hazards, risks, disasters, safety, security, etc.) that are pertinent to the field.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Additionally, some advocates also call for preventing institutional investors – and maybe even all for-profit investors – from being MHC owners to avoid excessive housing-related family instability, up to and including the extreme case of forced removal of the MH structure from the underlying land.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

This has unexpectedly led to heated public commentary, including two highly critical Wall Street Journal editorials. In short, this was a classic media-political firestorm about a relatively technical topic that is normally of interest only to those inside the mortgage system. 19 This was obviously in reaction to the criticisms.

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