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🌟 Exciting News from the City of Austin, Texas! 🌟 Attention all Austinites! 📢 Your input is needed to shape the future of our city's preservation efforts. 🏡 The City of Austin has unveiled its Equity Preservation Plan, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at preserving our historic buildings while promoting environmental sustainability and community well-being. 🌳 This plan not only honors our city's rich history but also sets a course for a more equitable and sustainable future. Now is your chance to make your voice heard! 🗣️ We want YOUR feedback to ensure that this plan reflects the needs and aspirations of our diverse community. Whether you're a long-time resident, a business owner, or a passionate advocate for sustainability, your input is invaluable. Here's how you can participate: 1️⃣ Read the Equity Preservation Plan draft: https://lnkd.in/gfj4dZaB 2️⃣ Share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments below. 3️⃣ Attend our upcoming community feedback sessions to engage directly with city officials and fellow residents. To view upcoming events Let's work together to shape a city that we're proud to call home. 💚 Together, we can preserve our heritage, protect our environment, and build a more equitable future for all. #AustinPreservation #CommunityEngagement #Sustainability #Equity

If you're going to UKREiiF, then you'll not want to miss this discussion with leading industry voices on how to recreate urban sites fit for the future, chaired by Peyrouz Modarres. #UKREiiF2024

Check out this great workshop by Catalyst Connection to help companies build a strong and sustainable building industry in Upper Appalachia!

NYC will be an even wetter place in the future because of heavier rainfall and sea level rise. The Mayor asked New Yorkers to devise a pathway to meet our climate future by asking important questions, which were discussed at today’s seminar to share working group recommendations: * How do we make the conversation and outcomes about adapting to the reality of increasing rainfall and flooding in NYC as inclusive as possible? *How can we address existing and impending social, environmental and financial risks to city infrastructure from climate change and flooding? *Is it time to give back some land and housing to create room for increased flooding? What would equitable buyouts look? These recommendations come from New Yorkers, for New Yorkers:

In case you missed this important conversation on housing and historic preservation with the ACHP, CA SHPO, City of Los Angeles, LA Conservancy, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and CA YIMBY....here is a summary and link to the recording: https://lnkd.in/eMJQjccQ

Are you a resident of Lynn, MA? As a part of our studio work this semester, the Urban Planning program is working directly in collaboration with the City of Lynn to better understand the climate related issues affecting the community and its public spaces such as Lynn Beach, which I visited on a very cold and blustery day. In 2023, King's Beach in Lynn, which is free and open to the public, was closed due to poor water quality and high bacteria counts more days than it was open. Neighboring beaches on either side, just few miles away, and which charges $10 for resident parking ND $40 for non-residents along along Lynn Shore Drive, don't suffer nearly the same levels of pollution and wastewater contamination. For King's beach to remain un-swimmable and inaccessible to Lynn's predominantly Brown and Black citizens, highlights a persistent climate justice challenge. But is beach access the most pressing issue for residents? We'd like to know! Our goal is to develop tools for climate mitigation that work for the people of Lynn in meaningful ways, and in collaboration with the organizations that are already doing the work to make Lynn the great city that is. If you are a Lynn resident, I'd like to invite you to take this short 5-minute survey that will help us to better understand the concerns of citizens. And if you're not, please feel free to share amongst your networks and spread the word. https://lnkd.in/ebyrqygW #climateaction #urbanplanning #urbanism #climateresilience #communityengagement

Interesting! The Great Saunter event, a 32-mile grand loop walk around the edges Manhattan. Increasingly, with the completion of pathways encircling the island, this kind of trek can become more broadly enabled. (In her piece, "Great Saunter Tips from Decades of Walking Around Manhattan" Sarah Milstein mentions that more segments of established pathways around the edges are falling into place.) Terrific to see the proliferation of these kinds of events, and, in the process, communities building this kind of walking green infrastructure! https://lnkd.in/gpE-C9F5

Why do we have to continually destroy our past and demolish perfectly serviceable, characterful buildings that with not too much imagination could makes great work/live communities and no doubt replace with boring modern boxes? #reuse #repurpose #oldbuildings #historicbuildings #sustainabledevelopment #NewtonAbbott #planning

Opinion: Don’t destroy historic Bay Area neighborhoods to solve housing crisis In recent years, historic preservation has come under intense fire from state Sen. Scott Wiener and his YIMBY allies for allegedly interfering with housing production. However, the regional housing crisis can be solved without destroying historic neighborhoods. After coming of age in the late 1960s, preservation focused on properties associated with the nation’s elite. However, this has changed as the scope of what society thinks deserves protection has broadened. For example, did you know that San Francisco’s Tenderloin is the city’s largest historic district? Without historic preservation, we would have no Palace of Fine Arts, no Alamo Square, no Tonga Room, no Alcatraz and no Paramount Theater. The list goes on and on. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gyhMXX_M Photo: AP Photo | Marcio Jose Sanchez | 2008 file

Beautification is key.