A new, first-ever study of climate planning by 885 European cities reveals several patterns: More than a third of the cities–local authorities–have done NO climate planning for either GHG reduction or adaptation–and nearly 9 out of 10 cities have no adaptation plan. In nations without any national government…
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After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017, it was often declared that “modern life” on the island of 4 million people had ended. Mostly, this meant a grueling descent into life without electricity and the benefits it provides. We often equate what’s modern with…
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A huge barrier to cities taking major steps to become more climate-resilience is how to pay for the projects that are needed. How will they get more money from taxpayers and users of water, energy, and other public services? How will they borrow money from capital…
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In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt came to Detroit to break ground for construction of the first federally funded public housing development–townhouses and towers for the city’s African-American “working poor” that at full expansion contained as many as 10,000 people. By 2012, the Brewster-Douglass Projects had been demolished…
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May 25, 2018 | Cities, Citywide Scale, Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, District Scale, System Scale
Even as cities have taken over the world–sheltering half of humanity, producing most of the economic output and GHG emissions, and beginning to supplant nation-states as leaders of practical and innovative governance–they have become the setting for massive, radical redesign. The “century of the city,” as…
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