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International "World Town Planning Day" was founded in 1949 by Carlos Maria della Paolera to educate people about the importance of thoughtful urban planning in cities around the world. 🌎 Today and everyday, USP recognizes how the district's built environment impacts the way we perceive and experience life in Union Square. That's why advancing public space, safety, and accessibility are key priorities of our USQNext Vision Plan. 🏙️https://lnkd.in/gQsecNUn How will you celebrate cities today?

World Town planning day is a good reminder of how interconnected the challenges we face are and how cities and towns can learn from each other on how to become more sustainable and resilient. https://lnkd.in/dDXeC4cz

Please join MAS on Tuesday, May 21 for a lunchtime virtual talk as part of our Enduring Culture Initiative, with Kamau Ware, Shelley Worrell, Jiefei Yuan, Delma Palma, Pete Nice, and Amanda Boston, Ph.D. With New York City in a constant state of change, how can the field of preservation be expanded to be a more multivocal, equitable, accessible, and inclusive framework for supporting diverse layers of history and culture in our city? What implications could such a shift have on our urban policy?  Historic preservation has traditionally been practiced with strict rules for maintaining material integrity tied to a specific place and time, most often through a singular perspective. However, a sense of place involves a larger set of narratives and layered histories. As our built environment shifts to adapt to our climate crisis, address our housing crisis, and deconstruct the legacy of racist planning and marginalizing policy, how can the field of preservation evolve to do more than one thing for more than one purpose? How can preservation practiced in non-traditional forms provide the opportunity for our urban fabric to be flexible, adaptable, and reflect layers of history to support multiple communities over time? 

Where are the best places to get started in the Carolinas? For communities looking to establish their own resilience hubs, Baja offers this advice: “Make sure you have buy-in from community members and that they really want this type of responsibility, and that it is focused in a community where it’s needed.”

SPUR’s latest policy brief contrasts the “15-minute neighborhood,” where essential services and amenities are a 15-minute walk or bike ride away from homes, with the low-density, single land use strategy that has governed nearly all residential development of modern cities since 1960. The policies of yesteryear created and perpetuated racially and economically segregated communities with inequitable access to critical public resources. The 15-minute neighborhood puts a premium on safe and easy access to resources, reducing pollution, and increasing livability, affordability, and equity. In a new brief, SPUR explores how the 15-minute model could help improve and accelerate San José’s approach to planning for more compact and connected urban development. The brief proposes that a 15-minute city framework could help San José realize the urban villages called for in the Envision San José 2040 General Plan. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gZhDrCXw

The resilient city Management paper of KDZ - Centre for Public Administration Research for city practitioners available. 25 pages provide insights on resilience of cities and presents strategies, concepts and tools to increase municipal resilience. 🚦 100 Resilient Cities Program (Resilient Cities network) 🚦 OECD: Better Policies for better Lives: Resilient cities 🚦 Stress test city from German Federal Office for Construction 🚦 Public Value of the Smart City Wien Framework Strategy 🚦 Future Shocks – European Parliamentary Research Service 🚦 World Risk Report of the German Development Alliance 🚦 Effective resilience strategy from Bertelsmann Foundation 🚦 The Resilience Management Cycle 🚦 The TEN Essentials for Making Cities Resilient 🚦 UNDRR: Toolkit: The TEN Essentials for Making Cities Resilient Thanks to Alexandra Schantl Nikola Hochholdinger.

Imagine a city where essential services are within a 15-minute travel radius by walking, biking, or public transport. 🚲 This is the heart of the "15-minute city" (15mC) concept, which aims to make cities more vibrant, sustainable and fair. 🏙 Despite its popularity, implementing this idea fairly and efficiently remains a challenge. 🚳 Our project aims to meet these challenges by combining different methods and interdisciplinary collaboration. 🤝 Bringing together social scientists, civil engineers, municipalities, regional transport authorities, and NGOs, we aim to develop guidelines and political tools that urban planners can use to safeguard social and environmental justice in the planning of 15mC. 📝

Historic England published new guidance this week on improving energy efficiency in historic buildings. Aiming to bring consistency to decision making it offers a framework for weighing sustainability benefits against the potential harm to heritage assets from adaptation. While there is an imperative to address climate change, this is an area that can be challenging for decision makers when heritage assets are involved and this document may help by setting out a flexible and proportionate approach this issue. Have a read and see what you think.

Apply now for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 2024 ACHP/HUD Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation! This joint award honors outstanding projects that have advanced historic preservation goals while promoting affordable housing, community revitalization, and/or enhanced economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income families and individuals.   Projects or activities must have been completed or have made substantial achievements within the last three years and have done the following: •Promoted the use of historic buildings for affordable housing, community development, and/or expanded economic opportunities •Included HUD funds or financing •Met preservation guidelines •Contributed to local community revitalization efforts   Submissions for the 2024 cycle are due by 11:59 p.m. PST on December 18, 2023. The award will be presented in summer 2024.   Nomination details and information about previous award winners are available at HUD’s Historic Preservation Awards webpage. Questions regarding criteria and requirements may be addressed to [email protected]. Technical assistance may be requested from [email protected].

It's mind-boggling that the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation wants to evict the Big Reuse from its Queens site. The Big Reuse processes tons of park and food waste yearly, producing nutrient-rich soil amendment that benefits surrounding parks, community gardens, and street trees. We all understand the challenges that city agencies face (lack of funding, space), but the Parks department's argument -- that it needs the space for parking -- is not justifiable. There is ample space for both its parking needs AND the Big Reuse's compost operation. The city seems intent on killing community composting—contradicting the commitments Adams Administration has promised towards expanding green infrastructure, achieving sustainability goals, improving public space, and more. See the links in Clare Miflin's original post, below, to sign the letter of support (for organizations) and petition (for individuals). My journalist and editor colleagues -- If you're free tomorrow morning, please attend the press conference! If you need more info or would like to set up interviews with the leaders of this resistance, DM me. WHAT: Press conference + Tour of Big Reuse Composting Site WHEN: Friday, April 19, 10:00-11:30 am (tour of site 10 am, street care event following) WHERE: Queensbridge Composting Site  Queens plaza South, between 9th street and Vernon Blvd Long Island City, NY 11101 WHO: Justin Green, executive director and founder of the Big Reuse, and Councilmembers Julie Won, Shekar Krishnan, Shaun Abreu, Tiffany Cabán Julie Won. Plus other members of the #SaveOurCompost Coalition and community leaders. PRESS CONFERENCE INFO HERE: https://lnkd.in/dQ2n358Y