Kizzy Charles-Guzman, Deputy Director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, gave the keynote public lecture for our Advancing the Theory and Practice of Urban Heat Resilience workshop in October 2020. The workshop was organized by myself and several colleagues, had the participation of the nation’s leading urban heat researchers and practitioners, and was… Continue reading An Equity-Focused Approach to Urban Heat Resilience
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Podcast on Redlining and Urban Heat
I enjoyed this timely conversation on redlining and urban heat with Illume Advising‘s Anne Dougherty, Founder and Co-Owner, and Amanda Maass, Consultant, on the Current: An Energy Podcast. We reflected on the recently published New York Times article, How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering, and how those same trends are reflected in… Continue reading Podcast on Redlining and Urban Heat
Masterclass: Innovations in heat planning research and practice
As part of the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN)‘s virtual forum this summer, I organized a masterclass on urban planning and governance for heat-health for June 16, 2020. With Roop Singh moderating, myself, Sara Meerow, Dave Hondula, and Ryan Winkle presented on the current state and innovations in urban planning, design and governance for… Continue reading Masterclass: Innovations in heat planning research and practice
Extreme Heat Webinar with the Urban Land Institute and Design Workshop
Extreme Heat and Real Estate We were joined by Katharine Burgess, Vice President of Urban Resilience and Elizabeth Foster, Manager of Urban Resilience at the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Alex Ramirez, Office Director and Associate at Design Workshop for our latest Extreme Heat Network webinar. Our presenters discussed how private and public sector real… Continue reading Extreme Heat Webinar with the Urban Land Institute and Design Workshop
Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Pete Aniello
Rapid Production of Urban Heat Island Maps for the U.S. Pete Aniello joined our Extreme Heat Network webinar series to present The Trust for Public Land‘s new urban heat island dataset. The publicly accessible dataset is analysis-ready and contains the relative heat severity for every pixel for 14,000 cities, towns, and census-designated places in the… Continue reading Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Pete Aniello