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SDSN Index and City Preparedness

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-sustainable-cities-most-likely-to-survive-a-disaster-2017-9

 

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2058390,00.html

  

     Business Insider posted a list of the top ten cities that are most prepared for a disaster. They used data…

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Added by Sean McAndrews on October 29, 2017 at 12:39am — No Comments

City Emergency Management

     https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/us/houston-harvey-disaster-lessons.html

     In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, cities’ emergency management officials took hard looks at their own plans and cross-examined them to Houston’s. The article by Adam Nagourney and Jess Bidgood of the New York Times discuss how city emergency preparedness officials have learned from Harvey and how…

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Added by Sean McAndrews on October 28, 2017 at 11:18pm — No Comments

Transportation Infrastructure Reform

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Americas-Transportation-Challenges.pdf

 

Richard Geddes, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses the need for reform in America’s transportation infrastructure. He describes the current situation for our infrastructure: lack of funding for roads, bridges, etc.; outdated infrastructure, and crippling traffic in urban…

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Added by Sean McAndrews on September 22, 2017 at 2:08am — No Comments

Effects of Gentrification

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/12/news/economy/gentrification-may-help-poor-people/index.html

Gentrification has become an issue in recent years that produces animosity towards the free market and capitalistic urban developers. CNN’s show, United Shades of America comes to mind. The show’s host, Kamau Bell, did a special on the gentrification of Portland in 2016. The…

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Added by Sean McAndrews on September 22, 2017 at 12:07am — No Comments

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