Making Healthy Places
Can we design and build places that are beneficial to people’s physical, mental, and emotional health, while also advancing equity and protecting the health of the planet? Yes!
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Webinar: Designing the Megaregion and Healing the Divided City
Much of the economic and population growth in the U.S. is happening within 12 urban megaregions. Investment in these megaregions can add stress to the environment, increase gridlock and air traffic delays, and make inequality worse, or it can help stabilize the environment, balance transportation systems, and create walkable neighborhoods with diverse housing choices.
Sustainability in a Small Place: The Spanish Basque Country Model
By Bruce Rich / On January 29th, 2020
The Basque Country has determinedly transformed itself into one of the most internationally competitive, socially inclusive, and environmentally progressive economies in the world.
In Atlantic City, the Legacy of Segregation and Redlining Endures
By Christina Jackson / On November 15th, 2019
Atlantic City offers a vivid example of a city affected by past racial and class segregation. But it can also show us how to heal cities that have high poverty rates and resilient communities of color.
Forgotten First Responders: Caregivers for Sick and Elderly
By Denise Fairchild, Monica Russo / On October 7th, 2019
Caregivers are underappreciated and underutilized partners in disaster response. But with proper recognition and support, they could become a linchpin of successful disaster response.
Lessons on Equity from the Just Growth Circle
By Elizabeth Sawin, Nathaniel Smith, Tina Smith / On September 10th, 2019
The Just Growth Circle coalition provides a different model for cities to address complex issues of health, water, climate, housing, jobs, and racial equity.
Webinar: How to Advocate for Local Transit in Your Community
What are the best methods in advocating for better transportation in your city? What do you say at a planning meeting? Who do you even direct your concerns to? What changes can you even affect?
What will be the most pressing climate change issue in the next 50 years?
By Jada Mosley / On April 16th, 2019
We turned to some of our authors to find out—What do they think will be the most pressing climate change issue in the next 50 years? Why?
Webinar: Design for Good
Almost everything around us was designed by someone; our homes, schools, workplaces, and nearly every imaginable public space. Design is everywhere and, for better or for worse, it shapes the quality of our lives.
Webinar: Walkable City Rules
Jeff Speck is an urban designer and author of several books on urban mobility. In this session, Jeff brings in concepts from his new book Walkable City Rules, 101 Steps to Making Better Placess. In his book he shares 101 rules for making a city more than just walkable, but more sustainable, equitable, and livable.