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  • Also Migrating From Latin America: A Wave of Urban Innovation

    Linda Baker

    April 30, 2024 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    The UCSD-Alacrán Community Station is a sanctuary neighborhood for migrants fleeing violence in their countries of origin that allows them to participate in building a community and new life for themselves. The neighborhood houses about 1,800 people on three acres and features a health clinic, food hub and school.

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  • What Happens After a Highway Dies

    Mark Byrnes

    April 13, 2024 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    After the highway’s removal in 2014, Rochester’s Inner Loop was transformed into Adventure Place, as part of the new Neighborhood of Play, which reimagined the urban landscape, featuring retail spaces, bike lanes and affordable housing options. Since the highway was filled in, more than $200 million in new investment has been generated. Moreover, several other cities, including New Orleans and Baltimore, are beginning to follow in their footsteps.

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  • The 15-Minute City Is Saving My Life

    Steve Mencher

    February 22, 2024 |

    Next Avenue |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept that encourages planners to develop neighborhoods that are easily accessible within a 15-minute walk, bike or public transit ride. The 15-minute city idea promotes health and wellness by encouraging residents to walk and bike more, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and fosters a sense of community among locals.

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  • Pedalear en la selva de concreto: la Bogotá que se mueve diariamente en bicicleta

    Greace Vanegas

    June 25, 2023 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Bogotá ha construido más de 600 kilómetros de ciclorrutas en menos de dos décadas, y se han cuadruplicado los viajes en bicicleta como resultado de la suma entre un papel activo de la ciudadanía y la voluntad política.

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  • Stilt Houses: How an Ancient Architectural Design Could Become a Climate Solution

    Ethan Brown

    May 05, 2023 |

    The Sweaty Penguin |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    When designed well, houses built on elevated platforms supported by stilts can help coastal communities adapt to climate change by reducing flood risk.

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  • The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes

    Susie Cagle

    April 18, 2023 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The shelter-in-place approach is slowly becoming a more common way to survive wildfires that are too violent and fast to evacuate. People using this method congregate in “defensible” buildings created with wildfire resilience in mind that sit in an area clear of flammable vegetation and fuel.

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  • The Florida town that challenged Hurricane Ian and won

    Stephanie Hanes

    November 30, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Babcock Ranch, Florida

    Babcock Ranch, Florida, survived Hurricane Ian without sustaining significant damage, losing power, or undergoing a boil-water alert because the town was built with natural disaster resilience in mind. The stormwater management system mimics the natural world, its electricity comes from its own solar grid, and it has its own water plant.

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  • Reviving old strip malls: What can Mansfield learn from Woburn, Mass.?

    Katie Ellington Serrao

    November 29, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    As strip malls continue to decline, some urban planning and real estate experts are advocating to turn the spaces into mixed-use developments with both residential and commercial spaces. This redevelopment is an opportunity to revitalize and enrich a community by creating a village-like setting, like Woburn Village, with its 175,000 square-feet of commercial space and 350 housing units.

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  • A hurricane-proof community, plus stopping a tiny killer

    Vic Micolucci Jesse Hanson Mike Jones

    October 31, 2022 |

    Solutionaries |

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    Response Location: United States, Babcock Ranch, Florida

    Babcock Ranch, Florida, weathered Hurricane Ian without losing electricity and with little damage. The town's designer says this storm resistance comes from choices like using solar power, putting in plenty of stormwater drains, and building all the infrastructure underground.

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  • In Pa., climate change can increase flooding risk in places that rarely worried about it. This community is seeking solutions

    Rachel McDevitt

    September 13, 2022 |

    StateImpact Pennsylvania |

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    Response Location: United States, Dubuque, Iowa

    Increased flooding from storms labeled federal disasters led Dubuque, Iowa, to daylight, or uncover, a creek that was buried and turned into a sewer. This project combined with rain gardens and detention ponds to trap storm water prevents flooding.

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