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Blog for 5/6: How Natural Are Natural Disasters?

In Miriam Greenberg’s article, “The Disaster Inside the Disaster; Hurricane Sandy and Post-Crisis Redevelopment,” she touches on the idea that even natural disasters are not completely arbitrary. The systematically unequal rebuilding efforts after a disaster, as well as the existing

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3/16 – The Economics Behind the RPA’s Plans

Something that stuck out to me in the reading was a particular emphasis within the RPA’s Third Regional Plan: The focus on the “Three E’s.” Robert Yaro and Tony Hiss claimed that the RPA focused primarily on improving the economics,

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