"We're starting to see more commerce and development in this area of the city than we've ever seen before.” governing.com/community/righ…

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Strategy for a 15-Minute City in Petaluma, CA. issuu.com/aiacxd/docs/pe…

The federal government needs to learn how to help relocate communities that want to move...The new funding will be a chance for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to learn to coordinate its relocation efforts with other agencies that work on disaster recovery. nytimes.com/2022/11/30/cli…

Reminder: The Deadline for Proposals for the 5th Annual Urbanism Next Conference is coming up! Proposals are due by Fri, Dec. 9. Get more info at bit.ly/3DOGWhi #UNEXT2023

"Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored purchaser of mortgage-backed securities, estimates a current supply shortage of 3.8 million units, driven by a 40-year collapse in the construction of homes smaller than 1,400 square feet." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“minimum power pool” — was once unfathomable here. Now, the federal government projects that day could come as soon as July. The Colorado River, which serves roughly 1 in 10 Americans, is the region’s most important waterway." washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

"Shared e-bike trips nearly doubled from 9.5 million in 2018 to 17 million in 2021. Riders took 14.5 million e-bike trips in station-based systems in 2021—an almost 30-fold increase over 2018 (500,000 trips)." Amazing! nacto.org/shared-micromo…

"The coldest U.S. state in terms of annual mean temperature, Alaska is also America’s fastest-warming one. Since 1970, the average temperature in Alaska has risen a disconcerting 4.22°F, unleashing an array of hazards that have upended daily life." yahoo.com/news/finding-s…

"With action at federal, state and local levels, along with surging demand for EVs, the energy transition accelerated remarkably in the last 12 months...Renewables Will Overtake Coal Globally by Early 2025" governing.com/now/some-good-…

Now that's a headline: "OVER 40 PERCENT OF NEW YORK CITY’S POPULATION LIVES IN AREAS THAT, WITHOUT INTERVENTION, FACE HIGH RISK FOR CLIMATE DISPLACEMENT" rebuildbydesign.org/uncategorized/…

“we need to be building smaller homes in denser places, closer together and closer to jobs, to public transportation. But the locations where we should be adding a ton more housing have made it really hard to build.”

"a vast amount of empty space — nearly 13 percent of the market — that could be turned into..." nytimes.com/2022/12/27/bus…

"The models used by the IPCC predict a sea level rise contribution from Greenland of around 4 inches by 2100, with a worst-case scenario of 6 inches. But that prediction is at odds with what field scientists are witnessing from the ice sheet itself." yahoo.com/news/going-gre…

“Great places have the power to fire the imagination of their citizens. No one can create them on their own. If, collectively, we are to create them once again we must first share a common view.” journal.theaou.org/john-thompson-…

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"With severe thunderstorms as the main driver for above-average insured losses... this secondary peril becomes one of the dominant global drivers of insured losses...driven by a warming climate" and "rapidly growing economic values in urbanized settings" swissre.com/press-release/…

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