by admin | Jun 14, 2015 | Activism, Civil rights, Disaster, Environment, History, Housing, Travel, Urban Planning
There is something mildly disconcerting about visiting an intriguing city several times without having the spare time to go tourist. I first visited Charleston, South Carolina, in 2003, for a business meeting with the National Fire Protection Association, for which I...
by admin | May 26, 2015 | Books, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Environment, Government, Public safety, Resilience, Urban Planning
One benefit of increased attention to hazards and climate change within the planning profession is a growing array of valuable literature that can benefit practicing planners and widen the scope of thinking on the subject among academics. This review of books...
by admin | Apr 12, 2015 | Chicago, Environment, Urban forest
Chicago is not terribly old, as world-class cities go. It was incorporated only in 1837. The area was essentially devoid of European settlers until the 19th century. In the preceding centuries, the resident Indians, including the Potawatomi, had created a landscape...
by admin | Sep 25, 2014 | Activism, Books, Climate, Disaster policy, Environment, Government, Science
Reportedly, about 400,000 people attended the People’s Climate March in New York City last weekend. I was not one of them, but that is not because I don’t support their objectives. I had planned to be in Iowa City, and will discuss that visit in an upcoming blog to...
by admin | Sep 10, 2014 | Disaster, Environment, Journalism
In view of American journalist Steven Sotloff’s fate—beheading at the hands of the Islamic State rebels who now control much of Syria—this is a rather dramatic statement. It came from Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at...
by admin | Sep 1, 2014 | Books, Climate, Environment, Government, Political philosophy, Science, Urban Planning
In an era of congressional gridlock, with so little productive activity coming out of Washington that many people have begun to wonder if federal government is good for anything, the best models often work quietly in the shadows—and they may not even work primarily...
