By Jonathan F. P. Rose and Peter Calthorpe Truly great urban places have the potential to be the most environmentally benign form of human settlement and are at the heart of a sustainable future. Cities affect our lives in profound, self-reinforcing ways: they can be a source of economic innovation, a pathway for poverty reduction,…
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5 Ways City Transport Systems Must Prepare for the 21st Century
Handling tomorrow’s mega-trends means rethinking today’s infrastructure. Jonathan F.P. Rose  Flickr user MTAPhotos In the 21st century, cities face many forces far beyond their control: mega-trends such as dramatic shifts in population, the financial vulnerability of a globally connected economy, resources scarcity, rising income inequality, and an increase in the droughts, floods, heat waves, cold…
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Resilience lessons from Katrina and Sandy
Prepare for the multiple threats of the 21st century. One of the key failings of the Federal Government’s Homeland Security mandates is that, after 9/11, they prepared New York City for the last threat, a terrorist attack, not the next threat, climate change. Although we must prepare for sea level rise, that is not the…
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