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A Placemaking Journal

Climate Adaptation: A weather report

Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein
This is a case study of the application of Scott’s argument that will be presented at the upcoming virtual Congress, CNU28, during the Wednesday, June 10, 2:30pm EDT session, New Tools for Urban Resilience, as well as part of our ongoing series in support of urbanist COVID-19 policy discussions. Among the lessons... Continue Reading
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Public Participation, Part II: Equitable Outreach

Ben Brown
Ben Brown
This is Part II of a two-parter on community engagement strategies in a new era. Part I is here. This conversation is the third in our series addressing planning challenges for local governments in a post-pandemic future. The two previous topics can be found here and here. Jennifer Hurley is President & CEO of Hurley-Franks... Continue Reading
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Public Participation, Part I: Let’s Fix What’s Not Working

Ben Brown
Ben Brown
This is Part I of a two-parter on this topic. The conversation is the third in our series addressing planning challenges in an era likely to be reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. The two previous topics can be found here and here. Jennifer Hurley is President & CEO of Hurley-Franks & Associates, a planning consultancy... Continue Reading
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Lessons from the Pandemic: Housing, Retail, Broadband

Ben Brown
Ben Brown
This is the second in a series of conversations about what comes next in local government policies and processes. Geoff Koski is president of the Bleakly Advisory Group, providing advice to real estate professionals, governments, and non-profit organizations dealing with a wide- range of real estate and economic development-related... Continue Reading
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After the Plague: Go Big or Go Backwards?

Ben Brown
Ben Brown
This is the first of several posts planned for the next few weeks on lessons we’re learning from the pandemic and how local and regional governments might respond – not only to the crisis itself, but also to weaknesses in policies and processes COVID-19 exposed. Let’s start with an understatement: Community development... Continue Reading
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Shelter in Place: Working in a time of isolation

Hazel Borys
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In this time of social distancing without a clear time frame, I’m feeling the need to share some of the things I’ve learned over 17 years of working from a home office. It’s clear that the novel corona virus will disrupt our previous ways of doing business, but it’s possible some parts of that may be good, eventually. Continue Reading
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Code Score: A New Aid for aligning policy and vision with outcomes

Hazel Borys
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Whether we’re talking equity, affordability, jobs, health, or a list of other pressing topics, every community strives for more effective outcomes from policies to address a broad range of competing demands. The fact that the demands – and the strategies to address them – are competing for time and resources is its... Continue Reading
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Code Hackathon: What can go wrong with form-based codes?

Hazel Borys
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We often talk about how places can hack their zoning code to enable livability. The Project for Code Reform is taking this idea to the next level, helping cities look for the lowest hanging fruit on the walkability front. However, for places on the cutting edge of land use reform that have already adopted a form-based... Continue Reading
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Climate Change Update, Part II: Leveraging “The Biggest Little Things”

Ben Brown
Ben Brown
“The best strategies are the ones that can be implemented.” That’s a reminder from Jim Fox, director of NEMAC, the National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Taking ideas to meaningful action is the bottom-line test of any plan. And it applies particularly... Continue Reading
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Climate Change Update, Part I: The End is Near (Really)

Ben Brown
Ben Brown
Back in 2011 when we were emerging from the Great Recession, I wrote an “End Is Near” post about the chance to make use of the crisis. When you run out of all options except the ones that force you to think big,” I wrote, a little panic could be a good thing: “We are about to be freed to innovate, to become... Continue Reading
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