Tune in for part three of Envision Utah’s series on disaster resilience in Utah. This episode discusses earthquakes and recommendations about how to increase our state-wide resiliency by improving our buildings. The podcast also looks at how we can strengthen our most vulnerable buildings, URMs (unreinforced masonry buildings) which include critical facilities like schools and […]
Read MoreRecently published research by Dr Hinners and others looks at the existing ethical frameworks from a range of disciplines, outlining possible ways in which ecologists, social scientists, and practitioners should expand the traditional ethical considerations of their work to ensure that urban residents, communities, and non-human entities are not harmed as researchers and practitioners carry […]
Read MoreThe Brake welcomed Keith Bartholomew of University of Utah and Nathan McNeil of Portland State University, who are hoping to bring the concept of the “Citizen Transportation Academy” to communities across the U.S. They talked about a more than 25-year-old course has helped shape the transportation conversation in Portland, Ore., how Salt Lake City is […]
Read MoreSalt Lake County often has the worst air quality in the nation, yet many of its most affected communities are overlooked. This film explores that injustice, profiling four local residents as they realize what it means to make a difference in their community. Watch the full documentary, AWAiRE – What’s Beneath the Clouds.
Read MoreAbstract Due to differences in the location, topography and socio-economic characteristics, flood risk and resilience are not the same for all communities. This study analysed flood resilience and its variations in different parts of the Temerloh Municipal Council area, Malaysia. Due to its location in the Pahang River basin, this town is highly vulnerable to […]
Read MoreEvery year the glow from our porches, buildings and streetlights gets brighter while our view of the moon, stars and Milky Way get dimmer. As light pollution reduces the darkness of the night sky, it disrupts animal movements, human biological clocks and other essential processes. It makes our lives and the planet less healthy. Dark […]
Read MoreGuidelines for a Polycentric Region to Reduce Vehicle Use and Increase Walking and Transit Use ABSTRACT Problem, research strategy, and findings: The monocentric development pattern in the Alonso–Mills–Muth model underpinned theoretical discussions of urban form in the 1960s and 1970s and truly dominated theory up to the point when Joel Garreau published Edge City: Life on […]
Read MoreMaking Homes Unhomely: The Politics of Displacement in a Gentrifying Neighborhood in Chicago ABSTRACT Scholars have long debated the causes, processes, and effects of displacement by gentrification in global north cities and more recently around the world. Based on an ethnographic study in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood, this article shows how limited liability corporations use […]
Read MorePublic policy challenges have a tendency to be somewhat overwhelming. People often don’t agree about the nature of the problem or what, if anything, should be done to address it. Even where there is agreement that there is a problem and it should be addressed, often public policy challenges—such as what to do about traffic […]
Read MoreABSTRACT Research increasingly shows that greening activity can spur contagious or imitative behavior among nearby neighbors within residential landscapes. Krusky et al. (2015) examined this phenomenon in the context of vacant lots and found support for a “greening hypothesis” that residential yards near vacant lots that were converted to community gardens exhibited higher levels of […]
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