by admin | Sep 6, 2023 | Blogging, Colorado, Disaster, Disaster Recovery, Drought, Emergency Management, Floodplain management, Government, Hazard Mitigation, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Resilience, Urban Planning, Wildfire
Ten years ago this month, Colorado faced a crisis. Following previous years of drought and wildfires, Rocky Mountain monsoon rains dumped a year’s worth of precipitation on the Front Range in a single day. Water poured down mountainsides that were sometimes so parched...
by admin | Jun 21, 2023 | Activism, Blogging, Books, Careers, Climate, Coastal Management, Disaster, Disaster policy, Floodplain management, Florida, Hazard Mitigation, Journalism, Movies, Natural Hazards, Personal history, Philanthropy, Public policy, Public safety, Resilience, Travel, Urban Planning, Weather, Wildfire, Writing
One reason I have long loved being an urban planner is that, ultimately, planning is about imagining a better future. Or should be, anyway. Although I was in my early thirties before I returned to school for a pair of graduate degrees in Urban and Regional Planning...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Blogging, Blogging, Climate, Disaster, Drought, Water
Occasionally, I have used this blog to link to American Planning Association blog posts that I think some readers may find important. That is the case here: At the APA blog, I provide a brief introduction to a wonderful new resource for communities on a variety of...
by admin | Aug 29, 2015 | Blogging, Disaster, History, Resilience
For the first time since launching this blog, I have invited a guest author, Stephen D. Villavaso, a New Orleans native, urban planner, and land-use attorney, to comment on today’s tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on the Gulf Coast. I was heavily...
by admin | Jul 28, 2015 | Blogging, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Economics, Education, Geography, Resilience, Urban Planning
Interdisciplinary disaster studies are still relatively new, compared to long-standing fields like geology or even psychology. I spent last week (July 19-23) in Broomfield, Colorado, first at the Natural Hazards Workshop, sponsored by the University of Colorado’s...
by admin | Apr 5, 2015 | Blogging, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Government, Resilience, Science
In response to my good friend, Allison Hardin, planner and floodplain manager in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, posting on Facebook the article referenced in my last post from the Post & Courier covering my and Matt Hauer’s presentations last week at the...
