Projects

Can Cities Save the Planet? While fears of global warming and environmental catastrophe loom ever greater, urban areas continue to expand unevenly. And, in the face of environmental crisis and urban crisis, the ideal of the ‘sustainable city’ is taking a leading role in urban planning and policy discourse. In terms of urban form, policymakers…

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Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Research for Resilience: Addressing California’s Climate, Conservation & Housing Crises The Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) —where human development mixes in with or abuts undeveloped natural areas— is the fastest growing area of housing growth in California, as well as a leading cause of wildfire, habitat fragmentation, and climate change. Yet there…

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Urban-agrarian entanglements Climate change is forcing a reconsideration of land use, infrastructural systems, and settlement across urban and agrarian space, with specific, grounded political demands coming from both sides that are often articulated in opposition to each other. Meanwhile, scholars of agrarian and urban studies are rarely in dialogue–despite the fact that places and people…

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