Lessons from Pandemics: Disaster Resilience Planning
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What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic to help plan more resilient communities that can respond to all types of economic, social, and environmental shocks?
Lessons from Pandemics: Transportation Risks and Safety Strategies
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Many people assume that infectious disease risks make public transport dangerous and automobile travel safe, but this is generally untrue. Other factors have more effect on pandemic risk.
Lessons from Pandemics: Comparing Urban and Rural Risks
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Many people assume that infectious disease risks make cities dangerous, but this is generally untrue. Other factors have more effect on pandemic risk and mortality rates, making cities safer and healthier than rural areas overall.
COVID-19 Appreciation Day
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April Fool's Day is a good day to consider life from a virus's perspective. Our tiny friends have many positive attributes.
Planners and Pandemics: Identifying Problems and Providing Solutions
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Planners are professional problem solvers. Let’s see how our methods can be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Planning Healthy Communities—Beyond the Hype
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Evidence-based research can help planners create truly healthy communities. No junk-science please.
The Right to the City: Planners’ Role in Creating Affordable and Inclusive Communities
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In a modern, post-industrial society, economic opportunity depends on disadvantaged households’ ability to find suitable housing in an economically successful city. Planners can make that happen.
Vision Zero, Meet VMT Reductions
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Many jurisdictions have vehicle miles traveled (VMT) reduction targets, intended to reduce congestion and pollution. They can also provide large but often overlooked traffic safety benefits.
Better Planning with More Comprehensive Transportation Cost Analysis
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Transportation planning decisions often involve trade-offs between various economic impacts, including direct user costs, and various external costs imposed on other people. All of these impacts should be considered in planning analysis.
Don't Miss the Middle: The Critical Role of Moderate-Priced Housing to Affordability
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To increase affordability communities should support moderate-priced housing development. This increases housing options for middle-income households, and for lower-income through filtering, as households move from low- to moderate-priced units.