by admin | Jun 28, 2020 | Climate, Coastal Management, Disaster, Government, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Public policy, Resilience, Science, Transportation, Urban Planning, Water
This summer, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is at last rolling out its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, and its first Notice of Funding Opportunity will likely be issued in September. In July, FEMA is airing a series of...
by admin | Apr 20, 2020 | Activism, Blogging, Civil rights, Coronavirus, Disaster, Education, Emergency Management, Government, History, Immigration, Politics, Public health, Public policy, Racism, Resilience, Volunteerism
What follows is an adapted, re-edited version of a Facebook post from today that seems to have struck a nerve, attracting dozens of likes, comments, and shares. As a result, I concluded that perhaps I should add it to this blog. No pictures here, just observations:...
by admin | Apr 11, 2020 | Activism, Aging, Chicago, Coronavirus, Disability, Disaster, Economics, Environment, Government, Healthcare, Medical, New Orleans, Public health, Public policy, Resilience, Science, Transportation, Urban Planning
On April 29, I will be moderating “Demanding Equity: Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery,” a 45-minute session in a special three-day virtual conference of the American Planning Association, NPC20 @HOME. The online conference is an attempt to replace the experience of...
by admin | Apr 1, 2020 | Aging, Christianity, Coronavirus, Emergency Management, Healthcare, Medical, Public health, Public policy, Public safety, Religion, Uncategorized
Okay, now I’m angry. I had not intended to produce another blog article quite so soon, but false prophets are rampaging through the vineyards of the Lord. Fortunately, there are only a few of them reported so far, two of whom have been cited for certain misdemeanor...
by admin | Mar 20, 2020 | Aging, Business, Chicago, Coronavirus, Disaster, Emergency Management, Healthcare, Medical, Parks, Public health, Public policy, Public safety, Restaurants, Sports, Urban Planning
If the doctor’s office had not called, I would not even have been here writing. I would perhaps have been on the CTA Blue Line on the way to my appointment, or more likely walking from the train station to his office. But they called less than an hour before the...
by admin | Feb 13, 2020 | Books, Climate, Coastal Management, Disaster, Disaster policy, Environment, Floodplain management, Government, Housing, Natural Hazards, Politics, Public policy, Resilience, Uncategorized, Urban Planning, Water, Weather
In the days shortly after World War II, writes Gilbert M. Gaul in The Geography of Risk, Morris Shapiro and his family were busy building their own version of Levittown, the famed suburban tract housing development of Long Island, on a barrier island in southern New...
