The last few weeks have been very difficult for me. I grew up in South Louisiana. Everyone member of my family in Livingston Parish had water in their homes. Moving forward, I sadly believe this will be more the norm that a fluke event. … Continue reading What We Can—and Can’t—Learn From the Floods in Baton Rouge
By Steve Moyer As University of Tennessee Professor Dorothy Metzger Habel examined architectural archives for 17th-century Rome, she started hearing voices. The many participants in the Eternal City’s building boom at that point — when 30 percent of the workforce was engaged in the construction industry — came to … Continue reading How the Eternal City’s Building Craze Also Bolstered Urban Planning
A look at what planners might have to offer … Tuesday, May 31, 2016 9:00 AM Dev Niyogi, Purdue University professor of agronomy and earth, atmospheric and planetary science and Indiana’s state climatologist, says it’s possible to design cities to reduce the effects of climate … Continue reading Urban planning in time of climate change
As we see more and more extreme weather events, how will planning plan a role in the response and mitigation? Here is a look at Houston, an American City notorious for little to no land use regulations. By Katie Herzog on May 31, 2016 Flooding in Texas … Continue reading Houston flooding is a perfect storm of climate change and bad urban planning
Your Next Lyft Ride May Not Have a Driver By Marisa Kendall / May 6, 2016 Summon a Lyft in the near future and the car that picks you up could have no one behind the wheel. Lyft and General Motors plan to have self-driving taxis on … Continue reading Self-driving taxis from Lyft, GM could be coming to a city near you
I am obsessed with anything autonomous. I love my i-robot. I can’t wait to get an autonomous car. Here is an article from apa.org that touches on how the “future” is closer than you might think. 2016-05-10 | GUARDIAN WEB The idea of self-driving cars … Continue reading How autonomous cars are driving the city of the future
Here is a interesting article! Living in South Florida, I am all too familiar with the cost of housing. But, how we do public housing has been the issue. Maybe we have learned from our past mistake. The Case for Public Housing The market can’t solve … Continue reading The Case for Public Housing
All the individual pledges to “fight” or “stop” climate change. But, is it too late? Can we turn back the hands of time or do we just plan for the change? All questions we need to be asking ourselves. San Diego Pledges $130M to Fight … Continue reading San Diego Pledges $130M to Fight Climate Change
Have you ever visited Miami? Were you here 5 or 10 years ago? We are a city on the rise. The article below, from the UN, gives a window into how perhaps we can get it right. “We are living in an urban age – … Continue reading People-focused urban planning is key to sustainable future, Pritzker Prize winning architect says at UN
“When the earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear. When that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.” —Chief Seattle Happy Earth Day! Perhaps we will learn, before it is too late, that we can all be Warriors of … Continue reading Earth Day 2016 – 7 things we’ve learned about Earth since the last Earth Day
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