One author offers a framework for resilience that rethinks common assumptions about the inevitability of cities as we know them.

In a piece for Next City, Stephanie Wakefield outlines key points from her new book, Miami in the Anthropocene: Rising Seas and Urban Resilience, which calls for a rethinking of the role urban places play in building resilience and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
With the urban envisioned as the inevitable form of the twenty-first century, it seems the only question mark is whether urban spaces and processes will be more or less resilient or equitable, smart or inclusive.
Wakefield proposes an alternate paradigm for approaching the future of cities, noting that the urban form as we know it may not survive changing conditions. “Will and should the urban as we know it actually survive the upending impacts of climate change or human responses?”
Wakefield ponders, “Rather than an endless expanse of cities and urbanization processes with seemingly no terminus — the latter destined to be but fodder for ever greater resilience of the former — might the Anthropocene’s human and nonhuman dislocations produce other spaces, processes and imaginaries entirely?”
FULL STORY: Theorizing Cities Under the Anthropocene

Planetizen Federal Action Tracker
A weekly monitor of how Trump’s orders and actions are impacting planners and planning in America.

Chicago’s Ghost Rails
Just beneath the surface of the modern city lie the remnants of its expansive early 20th-century streetcar system.

Amtrak Cutting Jobs, Funding to High-Speed Rail
The agency plans to cut 10 percent of its workforce and has confirmed it will not fund new high-speed rail projects.

Ohio Forces Data Centers to Prepay for Power
Utilities are calling on states to hold data center operators responsible for new energy demands to prevent leaving consumers on the hook for their bills.

MARTA CEO Steps Down Amid Citizenship Concerns
MARTA’s board announced Thursday that its chief, who is from Canada, is resigning due to questions about his immigration status.

Silicon Valley ‘Bike Superhighway’ Awarded $14M State Grant
A Caltrans grant brings the 10-mile Central Bikeway project connecting Santa Clara and East San Jose closer to fruition.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Caltrans
City of Fort Worth
Mpact (founded as Rail~Volution)
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
City of Portland
City of Laramie