by admin | Jul 16, 2020 | Coronavirus, Disaster, Healthcare, Public health, Public policy, Public safety, Resilience, Social Science, Urban Planning
Periodically, I have linked blog readers directly to a new podcast in the Resilience Roundtable series, produced by the American Planning Association and hosted by the APA Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Planning Division. Last fall, I became the moderator of...
by admin | Jun 28, 2020 | Climate, Coastal Management, Disaster, Government, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Public policy, Resilience, Science, Transportation, Urban Planning, Water
This summer, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is at last rolling out its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, and its first Notice of Funding Opportunity will likely be issued in September. In July, FEMA is airing a series of...
by admin | Jun 14, 2020 | Chicago, Civil rights, Coronavirus, Parks, Personal history, Public health, Racism, Restaurants, Weather
People in the Chicago area, and many beyond, some well beyond, are familiar with the city’s decades-old Taste of Chicago, featuring booths in Grant Park from dozens of the city’s iconic restaurants. Wandering the closed streets within the park, you can get pizza, jerk...
by admin | Jun 4, 2020 | Activism, Books, Business, Chicago, Civil rights, Crime, Emergency Management, Government, Personal history, Politics, Public safety, Racism, Resilience
I weep for my neighborhood. I weep for Chicago. I weep for the state of criminal justice in America when a police officer, hand in his pocket, a look of utter indifference on his face, feels the sense of impunity that empowers him to kneel on a black man’s neck in...
by admin | May 26, 2020 | Careers, Economics, Personal history, Transportation, Urban Planning, Volunteerism, Writing
Starting this summer, John Fuller will find something new to do with his time. He is retiring after 41 years on the faculty of the University of Iowa, where he has been a professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP) since 1979. But he has been much...
