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Tag Archives: Climate change
Cartoons for systemic change & recovery
2 min read We normally change only if we have to. A popular idiom encapsulates this: “Necessity is the mother of invention”. If we don’t acutely perceive the need to change, we might just settle for the status quo, and … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Disaster management, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged cartoonathon, cartoons, climate adaptation, Climate change, Community engagement, creativity, digital resources, digital technology, entrepreneurship, hackathons, innovation, institutional capacity, methodology, newnormal, recovery, serious games, spatial planning, systemic change, systems theory, urban planning, urban resilience
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Placemaking and Climate Resilience
Posted in Climate change
Tagged Climate change, climate resilience, Placemaking, urban resilience, webinar
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COVID-19 and climate resilience: Effective disaster prevention and management practices
Read time: 7 minutes Guest author: Olga Chepelianskaia (UNICITI) Editor’s note: This post shares the findings of two related articles that link the current crisis with climate resilience. These investigate: 1) human encroachment into natural ecosystems; and 2) resilience planning in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Development, Disaster management, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged adaptation, blue green infrastructure, Climate change, deforestation, disaster, disaster planning, ecosystem services, emergency planning, green infrastructure, mitigation, preparedness, urban planning, urban resilience, urban sustainability
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YA blog outlook: 2014-2020 & beyond
Read time: 5 minutes This post gives an overview of the growing activity on the blog since its launch in 2014. Based on the results of a short survey, the post also provides an outlook for 2020 and beyond. The … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Uncategorized
Tagged academe, academia, academic work, AESOP, AESOP YA, Climate change, economic planning, environmental planning, mapping, Planning Theory and Practice, reflective practice, smart cities, smart city, spatial planning, territorial planning, town planning, urban planning, urban resilience
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Top 14 books & events of the 2010s (views from the USA)
Read time: 3-4 minutes As we enter a brand new decade, the American spatial planning community has been generous in providing retrospectives of the past decade. Here are some highlights. Planetizen, the iconic US-based portal for professional planners, researchers and … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Conflict, Ecology, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Public transport, Resilience, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, environmental justice, Infrastructure, Placemaking, pollution, public health, Public transport, regeneration, Resilience, resilient cities, segregation, sustainability, tactical urbanism, urban planning, urban regeneration, walkability
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Highlights from 2017
2017 was a year of continued growth for the blog, building on 2016. It saw 8,400 views and 5,700 visitors, for 19 published posts. The map of viewers grew compared to the previous year. As it happened, a common theme … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Development, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Methodology and ethics, Planning, city, and society, Sustainability and resilience, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, Development, digital technology, dissemination, environment, minimalism, Resilience, smart cities, urban planning, well-being
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Planning around COP25: call for blog posts
The recent UN climate conference COP25 took place in Madrid last December. The conference fell short of consensus in many areas, although many technical issues were discussed at length. Effective implementation of the Paris Agreement will require significant effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Blogging, Climate change, Community engagement, Development, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Ecology, Economy, Heritage and Planning, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Public transport, Resilience, Sustainability and resilience, Sustainable consumption, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, disaster, Infrastructure, Resilience, urban design, urban planning
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Urban Heat Island for Beginners: Part 2 *
The Two Dimension of the UHI UHI is mainly dependent on the modification of the urban energy fluxes and, as a consequence, on the synoptic conditions in urban and rural sites. UHIs are characterized by two dimensions: an extension and … Continue reading
Urban Heat Island for Beginners: Part 1 *
The urban population is increasing worldwide and the urban expansion or the increase in urban density can affect both the global and the local climate having consequences, in turn, on human health. It is, therefore, important to increase the awareness … Continue reading
