Publicaciones

Enero 2020, español

Enero 2020, inglés

  Like many coastal cities, Miami is facing a climate future that is already here. Even without a major storm, seawater has been washing over the streets and bubbling up from bathtub drains, a harbinger of what’s to come when a projected two feet of sea-level rise invades the low-lying, porous land of South Florida […]

Diciembre 2019, inglés

Diciembre 2019, inglés

  Situated almost exactly in between Boston and New York, Hartford, Connecticut, is a classic mid-sized legacy city with great potential for reinvention. In this episode of the Land Matters podcast, planning commissioner Sara Bronin talks about the cutting-edge urban planning practices she hopes will put the city back on the map, after decades of […]

Diciembre 2019, inglés

  The struggling Bangor Mall is a national parable of changing retail habits. Built on a former dairy farm in Maine, the mall threw open its doors in October 1978, growing to serve up to two-thirds of the state’s population with a plum location off a main thoroughfare, Interstate 95, in the middle of the […]

Diciembre 2019, inglés

  As a rule, 12-acre development projects don’t tend to receive national or international attention. But that hasn’t been the case for Quayside, a parcel off Lake Ontario in Toronto. Two years ago, Waterfront Toronto—the government entity overseeing the redevelopment and reconfiguration of a larger swath of real estate along the Don River that includes […]

Diciembre 2019, inglés

  Over the past ten years, more than 200 students at Stanford University have had the chance to work with Bay Area government agencies and nonprofits on real-world projects related to digital inclusion, transit-oriented development, youth development, and other urban challenges. Through a combination of in-class instruction and fieldwork-based learning, Deland Chan’s Sustainable Cities course […]