Ladd Keith, Ph.D.

Tag: University of Arizona

  • University of Arizona Panel on Urban Heat Resilience

    University of Arizona Panel on Urban Heat Resilience

    I was joined by several colleagues at the University of Arizona on a Wonder at Home panel to discuss urban heat resilience and its relevance in urban planning, public health, and housing:

    Heat is the number one weather-related killer in the U.S., yet receives far less attention than other climate risks. In this panel discussion, you will hear from faculty members and researchers how urban heat risk is an underestimated, yet increasing, climate risk in cities across the U.S. We will explore how cities are innovating to advance their urban heat resilience through the perspectives of urban planning, public health, and housing.

    Moderator:

    • Brian Adair, Director, Corporate Services, Research Development, Research, Innovation & Impact

    Panelists:

    • Mona Arora, Principal Research Specialist & Course Instructor, Department of Community, Environment & Policy, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
    • Mark Kear, Assistant Professor of Geography, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    • Ladd Keith, Assistant Professor, Planning and Chair, Sustainable Built Environments, School of Landscape Architecture & Planning, College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture

    More information on this panel discussion is on the University of Arizona Foundation’s event page.

  • 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 information will be useful for practitioners and researchers in the effort to create more extreme heat resilient communities.

    Photograph by Gregor Orbino

    This survey should only take about 10 minutes and participants will be eligible to win one of two $50 Amazon gift cards upon completing it. Please take it, share it with your urban planning colleagues, and let me know if there is a network you are a part of that we can share the survey with!

    Update: Survey closed.

  • B.S. in Sustainable Built Environments – Fully Online

    The B.S. in Sustainable Built Environments degree program that I lead at The University of Arizona now has two emphasis areas – Sustainable Buildings and Sustainable Real Estate Development – that can be taken fully online! The university made the video below highlighting the learning experiences of the online degree with myself and fellow faculty members, Adriana Zuniga-Teran and Omar Youssef.

    Learn more about the fully online offering of the B.S. in Sustainable Built Environments degree program or feel free to contact me directly.