by admin | Jul 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
I know, I know. I had a long hiatus on this blog, produced by a heterogeneous combination of factors that kept me off balance throughout the spring and into the summer. I was probably tempting fate with my New Year’s blog post, asking to be “shot out of a cannon” this...
by admin | Apr 17, 2020 | Coronavirus, Uncategorized
Often in this blog, I employ my professional expertise in urban planning to illuminate issues for readers, as I have tried to do with aspects of the pandemic in recent weeks. But in this post, my aim is far simpler and more mundane. I will apply the most generic form...
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 8, 2020 | Environment, Geography, Nature, Parks, Travel, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Last week, I was in Kearney, Nebraska, for three days, attending and speaking at the Nebraska Planning and Zoning Association annual conference. But that is merely an excuse for being in the right place at the right time, for once in my life, to see one of nature’s...
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...
by admin | Nov 12, 2019 | Climate, Disaster, Floodplain management, Geography, Housing, Natural Hazards, Recreation, Resilience, Transportation, Uncategorized, Urban Planning, Water
Wilmington, a charming city of just over 100,000 on the far southern edge of the North Carolina coast, has taken some hits from coastal storms in recent years, most notably Hurricane Florence in 2018. Hurricane Dorian this year posed a minor threat but mostly left a...
