Equity means quite different things to two stakeholders I work with the most: Investors who deal in debt and equity and seek to benefit from the risk and opportunity that climate change creates. Urban planners and nonprofits dealing in social equity and cohesion and eager to…
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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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We Need To Analyze What Puts Disadvantaged Communities At Risk and Engage Marginalized People in Disaster Planning Last year, Americans endured an unrelenting series of climate calamities: hurricanes in Texas, Florida and the Caribbean; wildfires and mudslides in California; drought in the Dakotas; flooding in the Midwest.…
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January 7, 2018 | Cities, Climate Adaptation, Equity, Innovation Network for Communities, Reports, Sea Level Rise
In a scan of the climate adaptation plans, strategies, and actions of dozens of U.S. cities, INC developed a new framework for understanding what it takes to plan and implement adaptation and how to further develop the emerging field of practice for urban adaptation. We identified…
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October 19, 2017 | Adaptive Futures, Cities, Compact Development, Equity, Green Infrastructure, Guest Blogger, Urban TransformationSustainable development, impact real estate, smart growth, equitable development. Whatever you want to call it, I’d like to suggest it really starts with housing, which is currently in a crisis mode. Having moved back to Boulder in 2016 after five years in San Francisco, I can…
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The divide widens every day between urban and rural communities in parts of the developing world. I experienced this trend first-hand during the month I spent on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. I saw how this divide can be so substantial that the concepts…
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