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EQUIPPING COMMUNITIES FOR ACTION APA National Conference 2015 Seattle, Washington April 19, 2015
EQUIPPING COMMUNITIES FOR ACTION
APA National Conference 2015Seattle, Washington Apri l 19, 2015
INTRODUCTION
ZAKCQ LOCKREM, aicp
Principal, Director of Planning
Asakura Robinson Company
KATHLEEN ONUFER
Department of Planning and Development Review
City of Richmond
JEFFREY B. GOODMAN
Designer
Social Agency Lab
Jeffrey Goodman is a designer, planner, programmer, and researcher based in New Orleans whose latest work has been focused on creating new frameworks for Internet-driven business development at a local level. Throughout his career, Jeffrey has switched between working in online technologies and urban issues, working to meld these industries into a powerful tool for communities to drive sustainable, equitable, and efficient development.
A particular specialty of Jeffrey’s work is in translating complex urban information into understandable, relatable, and reasonable guides and designs. From the state of New Orleans’ public transportation system to a survey of the cultural economy to urban design to food truck regulation, he has made pamphlets, web tools, booklets, and posters that distill this information for people to be able to navigate the urban environment.
He is also a co-founder of Social Agency Lab, a collaborative of urban planners and designers who engage in public art and creative urban interventions, and Baskerville Studio, a community letterpress and book-binding artspace in New Orleans.
EDUCATIONMaster of Urban Planning Harvard University Graduate School of
DesignBachelor of Arts in History & Urban Studies Yale University
EXPERIENCEOne Voice Louisiana, Lead researcher + designer (2012 -
present)MindMixer.com, Director - East Coast, 2011 - 2012Salvation Army, Strategic Planning Fellow, 2010Vestal Design, Designer, 2006 - 2008Office of New Haven & State Affairs, Coordinator, 2006Planetizen, Editor, 2004
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTBaskerville Design Studio, boardmember (2014)NOLATech Week co-founder and organizer, New Orleans, LA
(2013)Social Agency Lab, co-founder, 2011
TEACHING & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS2014 Guest Studio Critic - Louisiana State University
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH“Datascapes - Maps and Diagrams as Landscape Agents”
featured images in Nadia Amoroso’s ‘Representing Landscapes: Digital’
“Designing Preparedness“ Code for America Newsletter, 2013“MindMixer infographic captures ‘state of cities’ ideas” Silicon
Prarie News, 2011“Detroit Manifold” GSD Platform 4, 2011“The Best of Street Style” Time Out Boston (MA), 2011
REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTSRide New Orleans’ “The State of Transit”, New Orleans, LARice University CENHS website, Houston, TXRice University CSWGS symposium poster, Houston TXEHCL logos and branding, Baton Rouge, LAOffice of Cultural Economy interactive tool, New Orleans, LAC4 Claiborne Corridor survey site, New Orleans, LA504HealthNet Guide to Services, New Orleans, LACitizen’s Guide to MAP-21, Baton Rouge, LANOLAReady logo, New Orleans, LAWashington Avenue Livable Centers Plan, Houston, TXBroadmoor Development Corp. branding, New Orleans, LAEnviRenew, New Orleans, LAPark My Bite food truck tool, New Orleans, LAThe Yard competition entry, Nashville, TNCanopy Detroit, Detroit, MIManifold Detroit, Detroit, MI900 S. Corridor Plan, Salt Lake City, UTThe Fantastic Pruitt-Igoe, Saint Louis, MOCitizen’s Guide to Urban Design, LouisianaDeal Flow Toolkit, New Orleans, LACut & Paste Labs, Lima, Perú Cool Cities Competition, Jackson, MIAffordable Housing Design Competition, Brookline, MAArts First Grant, Cambridge, MARichter Fellowship, New Haven, CT & Irvine, CA
JEFFREY GOODMANDEsiGNER & plANNER
ALEX MILLER
Principal
Miller Urban Consulting
ALEXANDRA MILLERconsulting principal
Alex is an urban planner who specializes in planning for community revitalization and economic development. Her work focuses on economic and social empowerment of communities that helps residents shape their own urban environments. She has extensive experience in community and land-use planning, real estate development, blight reduction strategies, and community engagement. Alex lives in New Orleans, LA.
Recently, Alex led a grant-funded initiative to develop a Blight Organizing Toolkit for New Orleans neighborhoods in partnership with community leaders and real estate development experts. The toolkit helps neighborhood leaders develop visions and strategies for blight reduction and vacant land reuse based on simple, concrete explanations about community mapping, blight-related policies, real estate market information, and property research. Alex’s work with community-based real estate strategies also includes work with the Crescent City Community Land Trust, a non-profit real estate developer focused on long-term community benefit, and implementation and grant making for EnviRenew, a $12 million affordable housing fund creating resilient and sustainable homes for New Orleans residents recovering from Katrina.
EDUCATIONMaster of Urban Planning, with distinction Harvard University Graduate School of DesignBachelor of Arts in Anthropology, summa cum laude Northwestern University
MEMBERSHIPSPlanners NetworkAmerican Planning AssociationAmerican Planning Association, Louisiana Chapter
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTCONNECT Coalition Steering Committee (2013 - 2014) Ride New Orleans Policy Committee (2012 - 2014)New Zion City Preservation Association Advisory Board (2013 -
2014)Equity Caucus Blight Working Group (2013 - 2014)Emerging Philanthropists of New Orleans (2012 - 2013)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH2014. The State of Transit in New Orleans: The Need for a More
Efficient, Equitable, and Sustainable System. With Rachel Heiligman. Ride New Orleans.
2014. Creating Long-Term Community Benefits with the Community Land Trust Approach. The Trumpet. June 2014: Equity, Inclusion and Economic Growth.
2014. Social Capital and Community Capacity in Disaster Recovery: The EnviRenew Fund’s Triple Bottom Line Approach. In BioCity vol. 57: Community Development and Infrastructure, For Citizens, By Citizens.
2012. EnviRenew Resilience Part 1 Report: Creating Resilient Communities. With Lindsay Jonker and Dana Brechwald. Atlanta: The Salvation Army.
2012. EnviRenew Resilience Part 2 Report: The Long-Term Recovery Mission in New Orleans. With Lindsay Jonker. Atlanta: The Salvation Army.
REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTSBlight Organizing Toolkit, Foundation for Louisiana. Providing
Neighborhood Leaders with Policy Analysis, Community Education, and Physical Strategies for Stubborn Neighborhood Blight.
Livable Claiborne Communities, City of New Orleans. Community Engagement and Data Analysis Support for HUD/DOT Funded Comprehensive Planning Process.
Commercial Real Estate Market and Partnership Study, Crescent City Community Land Trust. Real Estate Market Analysis, Financial Modeling and Partner Engagement for Commercial Land Trust Development.
EnviRenew Fund, The Salvation Army. Strategic Planning, Implementation, and Leveraging Investment for a $12 Million Affordable Green Housing Fund.
NeighborWorks Neighborhood Capacity Building Initiative, Broadmoor Development Corporation. Curriculum Development, Communications, and Implementation of Citizen Engagement Initiative.
Claiborne Corridor Cultural Collaborative (C4) Project. Cultural Economic Mapping, Data Analysis, and Interactive Web Development.
EnviRenew Resilience, The Salvation Army. Co-Authoring Publications as Outcome of a National Convening of Disaster Mitigation and Recovery Experts.
Public Transportation Participation Program, U.S. Dept. of Transportation. Evaluation of Grantees for Federal Funding of Innovative Community Engagement.
INTRODUCTION
Engagement Ethic1
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Making Tools
Toolkits in Action
How do we make engagement work?
LAB CAMPExperiential workshops to develop innovative practices in real time with communities facing real world problems
SOCIAL AGENCY LABResearch group developed to experiment with people driven planning processes
What does real engagement look like ?
people are empowered to:• communicate their values and priorities• understand constraints and tradeoffs• work at different spatial scales (block, neighborhood, city)• work on different timelines and determine how short-term
steps contribute to the execution of a long-term strategy
SOCIAL AGENCY LAB
GUIDES&
TOOLS
1.4 PLANS
At Your Meeting:
1. No plan can show everything. What elements are not shown, but are
important to a successful design?
2. What is just outside the plan’s boundaries? How does the design connect with
adjacent property?
3. How does the plan show all the various layers that make a place? Where do
you see conflicts or improvements?
A Key & Scale
B Streets
C Open Space
D Buildings
E Pedestrian System
F Entrances & Exits
G Parking
A plan is the most important drawing in urban design, where all the ideas come
together to show how a place will be arranged and function when completed. A
plan will show how buildings, streets, open space, transportation, and other
elements of urban design are laid out in a project. The purpose of a plan is to
accurately portray a design and to convey enough information that someone - a
builder, a city official, a member of the public - can clearly understand the form,
scale, and scope of a design.
A plan of a place - such as this mixed-use development - may be easy to read, but
without other information it will be difficult to visualize what that place will actually
be like. From building heights to architectural styles to lighting, there are many
elements that may not be clear in a plan and are extremely important in creating
the character of a space.
When looking at a plan, the first thing to do is orient yourself using the north arrow,
labels, and scale bar. Next, go through each of the layers described below; think
about how each works and how they will all work together.
D
F
G
EC
B
Building
StreetPedestrian Areas Landscaping
Water Parking
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• understanding representation: diagrams, land use maps, sections
• planning vocabulary and concepts
• site plans, zoning, masterplans
CITIZENS’ GUIDES TO LAND USE & URBAN DESIGN
Floor-Area Ratio, or FAR, can be calculated by dividing the total square footage of
the building by the area of the building’s lot.
Planners use FAR as a way to measure the size and scale of a building, but because
FAR does not consider heights or lot coverage, many different types of buildings
can have the same FAR. By combining FAR with lot coverage, set back, and
building heights, zoning guidelines can mandate a specific shape, size, and
location for a building.
For example, look at the buildings to the right with a FAR of 1. If that is the only
guideline, any of these could be allowed. If we set a height limit of two, then only
the first and third buildings could be built. If we add a maximum of 50% lot
coverage, only the first building works. With just these simple measurements, you
can narrow the look of a building by altering the envelope.
=FLOOR-AREA RATIO Total Building Area / Lot AreaFAR 1 = 4 units / 4 units
FAR 2 = 8 units / 4 units
= = =
= = =
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1.1
Note the buildings above. A floor-area ratio can be misleading; an FAR by itself
does not tell you much about the physical size of a building.
Note the block below. From the street, these buildings look identical because their
heights and set backs are the same, but because of different lot coverages, these
buildings have very different FARs.
Different sizes, similar FAR Same lot, different FAR
Residential Low Density Post-war
Residential Multi-Family Post-war
Residential Single-Family Pre-war
Residential Low Density Pre-war
Residential Medium Density Pre-war
Residential Multi-Family Pre-war
Neighborhood Commercial
General Commercial
Downtown Exposition
Mixed-Use Low Density
Mixed-Use Medium Density
Mixed-Use High Density
Downtown Mixed-Use
Mixed-Use Health/Life Sciences Neighborhood
Mixed-Use Maritime
Business Center
Industrial
Institutional
Parkland and Open Space
Cemetery
Natural Area
Transportation
Planned Development Area
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Provides clear, detailed local information that a resident would see in a CZO text amendment or area plan proposal
FAR LOT COVERAGE
• Train the neighborhood leaders to put ideas and concepts into practice
• Build bridges between civic leadership & design community
TRAININGS
COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE
Healthy Community Design Workshops:Engaging communities, agency representatives and elected officials in a conversation of how the built environment affects public health.
Community Transformation
Initiative
IMAGES
Community Transformation Initiative
healthy community design workshop
healthy community design workshopCommunity Transformation Initiative
Prepared by:ASAKURA ROBINSON COMPANY TRAFFIC ENGINEERS, INC.
WORKSHOP SUMMARY #4
Thursday, August 16, 2013 at Ripley HouseMAGNOLIA PARK / EAST END
Exploring lessons through a walking tourIdentify issues that prevent healthy choices, and consider the experience from someone else’s perspective
COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE
Community Transformation
Initiative
Create strategies for “Sticky Solutions”Teams work to develop program, project, and policy solutions to address neighborhood concerns.
COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE
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Developed by: The Community Transformation Initiative and The Houston Department of Health & Human ServicesConsultants: Asakura Robinson and Traffic Engineers, Inc
sticky solutions A Guide to Hosting a Healthy Community Design Workshop
THE GUIDEBOOK
NEW ORLEANS BLIGHT ORGANIZING TOOLKIT
Creating Common Understanding and Goals: Working with communities to understand why land is vacant, how to access or control land, and what strategies or uses can capitalize on community assets and local resources.
CONTEXT MAPPING RESEARCH
MARKETS POLICY ACTION
New Orleans Blight Organizing Toolkit
Context: Using local stories of neighborhoods and organizations who have developed successful vacant land strategies to stimulate interest, share successful tactics, and build connections between organizations.
NEW ORLEANS BLIGHT ORGANIZING TOOLKIT
New Orleans Blight Organizing Toolkit
Mapping: Residents wanted information about how to map vacant land and blighted property in order to document conditions in their neighborhoods and decide on neighborhood priorities.
NEW ORLEANS BLIGHT ORGANIZING TOOLKIT
New Orleans Blight Organizing Toolkit
Research: Neighborhood leaders wanted to find out who owns vacant property, whether the property has back taxes, and whether the property has been declared blighted; the Toolkit provides resources and instructions.
NEW ORLEANS BLIGHT ORGANIZING TOOLKIT
New Orleans Blight Organizing Toolkit
Markets: Residents wanted to know why code enforcement worked well in some areas, while vacant land remained in other areas. The Toolkit uses TRF’s Market Value Analysis as an education and empowerment tool.
NEW ORLEANS BLIGHT ORGANIZING TOOLKIT
New Orleans Blight Organizing Toolkit
Policy: After experiencing the complexities involved with transferring or improving blighted property, residents wanted a resource that explored all the relevant legal options and tools for addressing blight.
NEW ORLEANS BLIGHT ORGANIZING TOOLKIT
New Orleans Blight Organizing Toolkit
Action: Community members wanted to fit all of their local knowledge, mapping, research, and market analysis into strategic plans for blight reduction. The Toolkit contains resources to help residents plan for action.
NEW ORLEANS BLIGHT ORGANIZING TOOLKIT
City of Richmond • arts DISTRICT Facade Design Guide
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Cornice - Ornamental trim at the meeting of the roof and wall; defines the top edge of the building or division between the storefront and upper floors
Combination window - Contains lintel over the window, sash within, and sill underneath the window
Cornice between groundfloor storefront and upper stories
Display window - Large, eye-level windows provide views from the street into the interior of the business that showcases goods and services
Recessed entry - Protects passing pedestrians from out-swinging doors and allows shoppers a sheltered transition to and from the store
Skirtboard panels - Area that supports display windows of the storefront
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FACADE DESIGN GUIDE
Creating a regulatory framework for people to create temporary and long term projects on city owned property and a guide to how to access that land.
VACANT LOT TOOLKIT
otherSchool District, Port Authority,
Housing Authority
How Do i Use a vacant lot?
private
Is the lot taxdelinquent?
Treasurer SaleConservatorship
remediation/choose new lot
lot unavailablechoose new lot
lot unavailablechoose new lot
Permission from owner
Soil Test/PA One Call
agreement
OSS/ PLI /Zoning
final legal agreement
agreement revoked(project to be removed within 30 days)
construction/planting
inspection
inspection
license renewal(up to 3 years for Standard, 5 years for Commercial)
revisions(30-day notification for re-inspection)
Contactoss/ ura real estate
department
submit full design package(Due December 1st for spring projects)
site visit/package review by osS
conditionalapproval
(upon inspection)
zoning / permitting
revise and resubmit
project denied
Which Program is appropriate?(Continued on next page)
Complete intake form
open space Specialist (osS)
and
/or
and
/or
who owns the lot?
Is the lot available?
decision
legend
form
construction /planting
action by open space specialist
adopt-a-lot process
1 year initial license, up to 3 year renewal
vacant lot license1 season, no permanent structures
side lot program
planting
connect withneighborhoodorganizations
technical support /Non-Profit organizations
communityprocess
commercial use3 year initial license, up to 5 year renewal
agreement revoked(project to be removed within 30 days)
construction/planting
inspection
revisions(30-day notification for re-inspection)
Project approvedfor one season
ura
Meet With URA Lot
Specialist
proceed throughCity real estate division /ura Real Estate Department
city
ELIGIBLE FOR SIDELOT PROGRAM?
remediation/choose new lot
Right of entry formSoil Test
action by participant
Involvement withnon-profit partneror techical assistance
VacantLot Toolkit
Lots 2 Love
Technical Support /Non-Profit Organizations
Other resources
lot
Which Program is appropriate?(Continued from previous page)
Toolkitidea
Total redesign of Houston’s bus system with a 200 person stakeholder group including community leaders, electeds and staff
METRO SYSTEM REIMAGINING
ZAKCQ LOCKREM, aicp
KATHLEEN ONUFER
JEFFREY B. GOODMAN
Jeffrey Goodman is a designer, planner, programmer, and researcher based in New Orleans whose latest work has been focused on creating new frameworks for Internet-driven business development at a local level. Throughout his career, Jeffrey has switched between working in online technologies and urban issues, working to meld these industries into a powerful tool for communities to drive sustainable, equitable, and efficient development.
A particular specialty of Jeffrey’s work is in translating complex urban information into understandable, relatable, and reasonable guides and designs. From the state of New Orleans’ public transportation system to a survey of the cultural economy to urban design to food truck regulation, he has made pamphlets, web tools, booklets, and posters that distill this information for people to be able to navigate the urban environment.
He is also a co-founder of Social Agency Lab, a collaborative of urban planners and designers who engage in public art and creative urban interventions, and Baskerville Studio, a community letterpress and book-binding artspace in New Orleans.
EDUCATIONMaster of Urban Planning Harvard University Graduate School of
DesignBachelor of Arts in History & Urban Studies Yale University
EXPERIENCEOne Voice Louisiana, Lead researcher + designer (2012 -
present)MindMixer.com, Director - East Coast, 2011 - 2012Salvation Army, Strategic Planning Fellow, 2010Vestal Design, Designer, 2006 - 2008Office of New Haven & State Affairs, Coordinator, 2006Planetizen, Editor, 2004
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTBaskerville Design Studio, boardmember (2014)NOLATech Week co-founder and organizer, New Orleans, LA
(2013)Social Agency Lab, co-founder, 2011
TEACHING & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS2014 Guest Studio Critic - Louisiana State University
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH“Datascapes - Maps and Diagrams as Landscape Agents”
featured images in Nadia Amoroso’s ‘Representing Landscapes: Digital’
“Designing Preparedness“ Code for America Newsletter, 2013“MindMixer infographic captures ‘state of cities’ ideas” Silicon
Prarie News, 2011“Detroit Manifold” GSD Platform 4, 2011“The Best of Street Style” Time Out Boston (MA), 2011
REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTSRide New Orleans’ “The State of Transit”, New Orleans, LARice University CENHS website, Houston, TXRice University CSWGS symposium poster, Houston TXEHCL logos and branding, Baton Rouge, LAOffice of Cultural Economy interactive tool, New Orleans, LAC4 Claiborne Corridor survey site, New Orleans, LA504HealthNet Guide to Services, New Orleans, LACitizen’s Guide to MAP-21, Baton Rouge, LANOLAReady logo, New Orleans, LAWashington Avenue Livable Centers Plan, Houston, TXBroadmoor Development Corp. branding, New Orleans, LAEnviRenew, New Orleans, LAPark My Bite food truck tool, New Orleans, LAThe Yard competition entry, Nashville, TNCanopy Detroit, Detroit, MIManifold Detroit, Detroit, MI900 S. Corridor Plan, Salt Lake City, UTThe Fantastic Pruitt-Igoe, Saint Louis, MOCitizen’s Guide to Urban Design, LouisianaDeal Flow Toolkit, New Orleans, LACut & Paste Labs, Lima, Perú Cool Cities Competition, Jackson, MIAffordable Housing Design Competition, Brookline, MAArts First Grant, Cambridge, MARichter Fellowship, New Haven, CT & Irvine, CA
JEFFREY GOODMANDEsiGNER & plANNER
ALEX MILLER
ALEXANDRA MILLERconsulting principal
Alex is an urban planner who specializes in planning for community revitalization and economic development. Her work focuses on economic and social empowerment of communities that helps residents shape their own urban environments. She has extensive experience in community and land-use planning, real estate development, blight reduction strategies, and community engagement. Alex lives in New Orleans, LA.
Recently, Alex led a grant-funded initiative to develop a Blight Organizing Toolkit for New Orleans neighborhoods in partnership with community leaders and real estate development experts. The toolkit helps neighborhood leaders develop visions and strategies for blight reduction and vacant land reuse based on simple, concrete explanations about community mapping, blight-related policies, real estate market information, and property research. Alex’s work with community-based real estate strategies also includes work with the Crescent City Community Land Trust, a non-profit real estate developer focused on long-term community benefit, and implementation and grant making for EnviRenew, a $12 million affordable housing fund creating resilient and sustainable homes for New Orleans residents recovering from Katrina.
EDUCATIONMaster of Urban Planning, with distinction Harvard University Graduate School of DesignBachelor of Arts in Anthropology, summa cum laude Northwestern University
MEMBERSHIPSPlanners NetworkAmerican Planning AssociationAmerican Planning Association, Louisiana Chapter
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTCONNECT Coalition Steering Committee (2013 - 2014) Ride New Orleans Policy Committee (2012 - 2014)New Zion City Preservation Association Advisory Board (2013 -
2014)Equity Caucus Blight Working Group (2013 - 2014)Emerging Philanthropists of New Orleans (2012 - 2013)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH2014. The State of Transit in New Orleans: The Need for a More
Efficient, Equitable, and Sustainable System. With Rachel Heiligman. Ride New Orleans.
2014. Creating Long-Term Community Benefits with the Community Land Trust Approach. The Trumpet. June 2014: Equity, Inclusion and Economic Growth.
2014. Social Capital and Community Capacity in Disaster Recovery: The EnviRenew Fund’s Triple Bottom Line Approach. In BioCity vol. 57: Community Development and Infrastructure, For Citizens, By Citizens.
2012. EnviRenew Resilience Part 1 Report: Creating Resilient Communities. With Lindsay Jonker and Dana Brechwald. Atlanta: The Salvation Army.
2012. EnviRenew Resilience Part 2 Report: The Long-Term Recovery Mission in New Orleans. With Lindsay Jonker. Atlanta: The Salvation Army.
REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTSBlight Organizing Toolkit, Foundation for Louisiana. Providing
Neighborhood Leaders with Policy Analysis, Community Education, and Physical Strategies for Stubborn Neighborhood Blight.
Livable Claiborne Communities, City of New Orleans. Community Engagement and Data Analysis Support for HUD/DOT Funded Comprehensive Planning Process.
Commercial Real Estate Market and Partnership Study, Crescent City Community Land Trust. Real Estate Market Analysis, Financial Modeling and Partner Engagement for Commercial Land Trust Development.
EnviRenew Fund, The Salvation Army. Strategic Planning, Implementation, and Leveraging Investment for a $12 Million Affordable Green Housing Fund.
NeighborWorks Neighborhood Capacity Building Initiative, Broadmoor Development Corporation. Curriculum Development, Communications, and Implementation of Citizen Engagement Initiative.
Claiborne Corridor Cultural Collaborative (C4) Project. Cultural Economic Mapping, Data Analysis, and Interactive Web Development.
EnviRenew Resilience, The Salvation Army. Co-Authoring Publications as Outcome of a National Convening of Disaster Mitigation and Recovery Experts.
Public Transportation Participation Program, U.S. Dept. of Transportation. Evaluation of Grantees for Federal Funding of Innovative Community Engagement.
