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July 2024, English

Multimedia Cases

Comparing Hazard Mitigation Plans and Climate Change Adaptation Plans as Strategies to Foster Community Resilience

Melina Matos, Philip Gilbertson, Sierra Woodruff, Sara Meerow, and Malini Roy

January 2024, English

This case encourages readers to identify opportunities to better integrate Hazard Mitigation Plans (HMPs) and Climate Change Adaptation Plans (CCAPs). Focusing on Boston, a leader in climate change adaptation that has two stand-alone plans, it compares the roles of these plan types and their implications for vulnerability to flooding.

Inquiry Case Study

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment

January 2024, English

This case encourages readers to identify opportunities to better integrate Hazard Mitigation Plans (HMPs) and Climate Change Adaptation Plans (CCAPs). Focusing on Boston, a leader in climate change adaptation that has two stand-alone plans, it compares the roles of these plan types and their implications for vulnerability to flooding.

Inquiry Case Study

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment

To Plan, First Imagine

Exploratory Scenario Planning in Greater Philadelphia

Kirsten Lundberg

January 2024, English

This case study reviews the efforts of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) to use exploratory scenario planning to generate future scenarios for Connections 2050, a long-range plan for Greater Philadelphia focusing on transportation, smart growth, and environmental stewardship.

Inquiry Case Study

City and Regional Planning, Infrastructure

January 2024, English

This case study reviews the efforts of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) to use exploratory scenario planning to generate future scenarios for Connections 2050, a long-range plan for Greater Philadelphia focusing on transportation, smart growth, and environmental stewardship.

Inquiry Case Study

City and Regional Planning, Infrastructure

A building painted with the phrase 'Welcome to the ONE Love'

Still the One

Affordable Housing Initiatives in Burlington Vermont’s Old North End

October 2023, English

Multimedia Cases

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Markets, Local Government, Public Finance

October 2023, English

Multimedia Cases

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Markets, Local Government, Public Finance

Making Millennium Park

March 2022, English

Multimedia Cases

Public Finance

March 2022, English

Multimedia Cases

Public Finance

Financing a City’s Vision

The Social Mobilization of Land Values in São Paulo

March 2022, English

Multimedia Cases

Public Finance

March 2022, English

Multimedia Cases

Public Finance

Bravery in the Face of Bureaucracy

The Negotiation and Completion of Minute 319

Jennifer Gimbel

October 2019, English

This case reviews the negotiation process regarding the operations of the Colorado River system after it experienced the most severe drought in recorded history.

Case Studies

City and Regional Planning, Environment, Informal Settlements, Water

October 2019, English

This case reviews the negotiation process regarding the operations of the Colorado River system after it experienced the most severe drought in recorded history.

Case Studies

City and Regional Planning, Environment, Informal Settlements, Water

Fighting FEMA

Urban Informality and Disaster Response in Rio Grande Valley Colonias

Danielle Zoe Rivera

October 2019, English

This case study examines the legal case LUPE, et al. v. FEMA, B:08-cv-487 [2008], which discusses the issue of informal housing repairs in post-disaster situations.

Descriptive Case Study

Housing, Informal Settlements

October 2019, English

This case study examines the legal case LUPE, et al. v. FEMA, B:08-cv-487 [2008], which discusses the issue of informal housing repairs in post-disaster situations.

Descriptive Case Study

Housing, Informal Settlements

Environmental Protection, Climate Regulation, and the Persistence of Sprawl in California

Sean Kennedy and Stephanie Pincetl

October 2019, English

In California, a leader in environmental protection, changes in land use (driver of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other environmental impacts) continue unabated.

Descriptive Case Study

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Land Conflict Resolution

October 2019, English

In California, a leader in environmental protection, changes in land use (driver of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other environmental impacts) continue unabated.

Descriptive Case Study

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Land Conflict Resolution