Rebuilding after a major disaster offers a unique opportunity for a community to step back and ask how it wants to build.
Christine Lepisto, a freelance writer for Treehugger states:
Rebuilding offers a unique opportunity to step back and ask how we want to build, an advantage over the business-as-usual rolling development. As Greensburg once owed its fame to a well dug deep enough to tap a now receding aquifer, Fort McMurray owes its boom to the oil sands, a resource that presents obvious sustainability issues. Clever planning now can prepare the community to grow and thrive when the oil economy starts to fade.
A 2014 article detailed the recovery efforts of Greensburg, Kansas, after a tornado destroyed 95 percent of the town's buildings.
FULL STORY: Starting again: what Greensburg Kansas can teach Fort McMurray
Integrating Health, Housing, and Resilience
The Urban Land Institute proposes the blending of solutions in housing and public health as a method of increasing the resilience of cities threatened by natural disasters of all kinds.
Texas is Counting on Battery Systems to Limit Power Outages This Winter
ERCOT says new battery storage and other systems set in place after 2021’s devastating winter storm will help prevent an energy emergency this winter.
Seven Brilliant Projects Keeping New Orleans Safe from Stormwater
20 years post Katrina, New Orleans has shored up and reinvented itself to absorb millions upon millions of gallons of stormwater. Their success holds lessons for landscape architects all over the world.
The state-sanctioned urbicide of Austin
People don’t kill cities. Freeways do.
US to reduce Colorado River water deliveries to Mexico
A new Colorado Treaty amendment reduces Mexico’s Colorado River water allocation by 250,000 acre feet.
New Jersey’s second-largest city bans standalone data centers
Jersey City will continue to allow co-location facilities, such as those meant for research institutions that store their own data.
Amtrak not solely to blame for New Jersey commuter rail's unreliability, report finds
A new study from the Garden State Initiative found that NJ Transit’s budget grew 20% across a 4 year period, but reliability declined significantly over the same period.
EPA erases limits on planet-warming pollution from power plants
Under Monday’s plan, power plants would still have some limits on how much mercury, arsenic and other contaminants they can emit.
Phoenix announces new on-demand transit service, more frequent RAPID buses
Both new services will launch in October, and are part of Phoenix's Project Effective Access Solutions for Easing Congestion.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
Eagle County Government
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Nashville Planning Department
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
Journal of the American Planning Association