Small step, like this, can make a huge impact. Why are more cities taking proactive approaches? Stormwater Rethink Aimed at Flooding in Atlanta Neighborhoods By Jen Kinney | November 23, 201 In Peoplestown, Summerhill and Mechanicsville, the city of Atlanta has decided it can’t fight … Continue reading Atlanta Installs Permeable Pavement in Flood-Prone Neighborhoods
Ariane Laxo – Published: August 1, 2016 We all spend the majority of our time in the built environment, be it outside in parks or driving on roads and bridges, or inside our homes and offices. But is this built environment prepared for the impacts … Continue reading Resilient by Design: Preparing the Built Environment for Climate Change
Aneri Pattani, Oct. 25, 2016 When one of the largest California wildfires on record broke out in 2013, raging for more than two months and threatening San Francisco’s water supply coming from Yosemite,firefighters used drones to get aerial shots of the blazeand determine the … Continue reading Building the city of the future — at a $41 trillion price tag
By Jonathan Lerner Unlike other small urban areas in its region, the city of Middletown, New York, has been gaining population and jobs. About 28,000 people live there, a nearly 10 percent increase since 2000. Among its centers of employment and vitality are a community college and … Continue reading A Course in Small Town Revitalization
Amy Lieberman – 10/14/16 The severe risk of climate change and rising sea levels on urban areas has not been addressed in the UN’s proposed New Urban Agenda, so flood-risk cities will have to learn from each another and share solutions. Current projections of global … Continue reading Global sea levels are rising fast, so where does that leave the cities most at risk?
Every October, the king tide sweeps across South Florida as the full moon orbits closest to Earth. This alignment causes the highest water level of the year. Roads and yards flood. But scientists say this could be one of the worst Fort Lauderdale has faced — … Continue reading Hurricane Nicole and King Tide Already Flooding Fort Lauderdale
September 7th, 2016 by Sandy Dechert On Monday, September 7 (the Labor Day holiday in the US), the government of Mexico announced that the nation “south of the border” would soon join the growing ranks of countries that have adopted cap and trade to reduce … Continue reading Mexico Will Launch Carbon Pricing In November
Adele Peters 08.29.16 A new apartment building in Sweden doesn’t have any parking spaces. Instead, the developers invested the money that would have gone to a parking garage into creating an ideal place to live for people who don’t want to own a car. “The … Continue reading These Swedish “Bike Apartments” Are Designed For Life Without Cars
May 30 Regarding the May 24 news article “Pace of damage to planet has quickened, U.N. study says”:Urbanization itself is not responsible for the environmental threats facing the world. Unplanned and poorly managed urbanization is.It is important to note the distinction between planned and well-managed … Continue reading Good urban planning can help the environment
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
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