The report from the Urban Land Institute Advisory Services Panel I led June 2 – 7, 2019 on increasing the resilience of Miami’s urban waterfront is now out! Download Full Report The City of Miami and the Miami Downtown Development Authority asked the Urban Land Institute to conduct an Advisory Services panel to provide recommendations… Continue reading Urban Waterfront Resilience for Miami
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Planning for Extreme Heat Survey
My colleague Sara Meerow, PhD, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, and I are studying how urban planners address extreme heat. Our goal is to survey planning professionals from a wide range of U.S. communities to better understand how extreme heat risk perceptions, current planning activities, and barriers to action vary across the country. This… Continue reading Planning for Extreme Heat Survey
Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Jeremy Hoffman, PhD
Community-based participatory research campaigns to build climate resilience Jeremy Hoffman, PhD joined our Extreme Heat Network webinar series to discuss how community-based participatory research campaigns, known as “citizen science”, can aid in the creation of urban heat island maps and increase extreme heat resilience. He will discuss the impacts of campaigns in Richmond, VA, Baltimore,… Continue reading Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Jeremy Hoffman, PhD
Urban Land Institute Award
I’m honored to have received the Rising Star Award from the Urban Land Institute Advisory Services program! From ULI: Ladd Keith, PhD has participated in four ULI panels since 2015, most notably as Chair for both the Jacksonville, Florida panel in 2018 on transit and economic development and the urban waterfront resilience panel in Miami, Florida in 2019. Ladd was also… Continue reading Urban Land Institute Award
What Desert Cities Can Teach Us About Water
An interview I did with Rudri Bhatt Patel for the JSTOR Daily on sustainability in desert cities is out! “In many ways, Phoenix and Tucson are on the cutting edge of sustainability because they were forced to confront water scarcity decades ago. The Southwest is fertile ground to create solutions.” Check out the full article… Continue reading What Desert Cities Can Teach Us About Water