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How to increase climate resilience in urban areas

American City & Country

Long-term heat exposure significantly influences urban planning. Implement green infrastructure solutions. Older urban development practices frequently involved the use of dark, impermeable surfaces like asphalt roads and tar roofs, which absorbed heat, contributing to the urban heat island effect.

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Citi Logik helps governments drive action on transportation insights with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Citi Logik provides their customers, including the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Wiltshire County Council, with valuable insights to help them make informed decisions about future transportation planning and urban planning development. They analyse over 150 million journeys in the UK every single day using MND.

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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

Social Pinpoint

When thoughtfully implemented, compensation can be a powerful tool for fostering deeper, more meaningful community involvement. For instance, this could include helping people visualise projects that includes urban planning and new playgrounds. This is while also ensuring that compensation structures remain fair and transparent.

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Curitiba Is Evolving But Remains a Model for Urban Sustainability

The City Fix

I made my first pilgrimage in 2000, when Bogotá was implementing its bus rapid transit system, Transmilenio, and returned twice after that. I recently had the pleasure of re-visiting Curitiba, Brazil, thanks to an invitation from the Smart Cities Expo. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Bogotá and Cali Connect Local Action to National Ambition to Transform the Buildings Sector

The City Fix

Following the launch of Colombia’s first National Roadmap for Net Zero Buildings in June 2022, the cities of Bogotá and Cali are setting the foundation for how to implement the roadmap at the local level. The municipal governments of both cities have.

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Vacant Land is More Than a Single Lot—it’s a System.

Center for Community Progress

Vacant lots are often viewed as pieces within larger systems, such as urban planning or community development, or overlooked entirely. Local government agencies can implement policies and programs that incentivize the use of vacant land for affordable housing or economic development.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. Rational planning is pretty static at least to me, with constrained scopes and less willingness to change approaches and recommendations as new information is uncovered. The multi-step process for large scale best practice revitalization planning followed.