by admin | Jun 8, 2015 | Chicago, Public health, Recreation, Urban Planning
More than a century ago, the City of Chicago settled a neighborhood dispute by forcing the elevation of a railroad bed for a 2.7-mile spur line that served a variety of small factories on its North Side that provided jobs for a string of neighborhoods in or near...
by admin | Jun 2, 2015 | Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Government, Resilience, Urban Planning
Two years ago, in June 2013, I participated in a day-long meeting in New York hosted by the Regional Plan Association (RPA) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, helping explore the coastal policy implications of Hurricane Sandy. These two organizations were...
by admin | May 26, 2015 | Books, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Environment, Government, Public safety, Resilience, Urban Planning
One benefit of increased attention to hazards and climate change within the planning profession is a growing array of valuable literature that can benefit practicing planners and widen the scope of thinking on the subject among academics. This review of books...
by admin | May 17, 2015 | Activism, Books, Climate, Disaster policy, Resilience, Urban Planning
In recent years, there has been growing interest in and activity around the concept of resilience. For many people long involved in trying to make the world’s communities safer from disasters, the interest has been heartwarming. The underlying idea is that a community...
by admin | Apr 1, 2015 | Blogging, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Urban Planning
Since Sunday evening, I have been in North Charleston, South Carolina, attending the 2015 Coastal GeoTools conference, hosted by the Association of State Floodplain Managers with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I intend to post more...
by admin | Mar 22, 2015 | Climate, Disaster, Public health, Resilience, Urban Planning
It appears the American Planning Association may break all its attendance records at its annual National Planning Conference next month in Seattle. The last previous record of about 7,000 was also set in Seattle in 1999, so there must be something about the city that...
