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Scenario Planning in a Pandemic
How to Embrace and Navigate Uncertainty
June 2020, English
Local authorities focus on quickly getting services back up and running, returning to previous systems and making them as effective as possible in the new context. After a year of upheaval, staff and the wider public have little appetite for change. —“Race Back to Normal” scenario, Social Finance Earlier this year, the U.K.-based […]
June 2020, English
Local authorities focus on quickly getting services back up and running, returning to previous systems and making them as effective as possible in the new context. After a year of upheaval, staff and the wider public have little appetite for change. —“Race Back to Normal” scenario, Social Finance Earlier this year, the U.K.-based […]
City Tech
Data Companies Track Our Pandemic Patterns
June 2020, English
Numina, a tech startup based in Brooklyn, New York, uses purpose-built sensors to gather data on pedestrian and bicyclist behavior, offering urban planners, policy makers, and mobility-focused businesses granular, anonymized information that can help shape new projects and tweak existing streetscape designs. While Numina has always focused on walkers and cyclists, its technology is […]
June 2020, English
Numina, a tech startup based in Brooklyn, New York, uses purpose-built sensors to gather data on pedestrian and bicyclist behavior, offering urban planners, policy makers, and mobility-focused businesses granular, anonymized information that can help shape new projects and tweak existing streetscape designs. While Numina has always focused on walkers and cyclists, its technology is […]
Water in the West
Finding (and Funding) Stormwater Capture Solutions
June 2020, English
After several hours of gentle rain in Tucson, water clogs the streets of the modest Palo Verde neighborhood. Traffic chokes a major intersection where an emergency vehicle’s flashing red and blue lights signal to cars to detour around a swamped section of road. Rivulets rush along the curbs of side streets, creating pools of […]
June 2020, English
After several hours of gentle rain in Tucson, water clogs the streets of the modest Palo Verde neighborhood. Traffic chokes a major intersection where an emergency vehicle’s flashing red and blue lights signal to cars to detour around a swamped section of road. Rivulets rush along the curbs of side streets, creating pools of […]
Planificación de escenarios en pandemia
Cómo aceptar y transitar la incertidumbre
June 2020, Spanish
Las autoridades locales se centran en reinstaurar los servicios rápidamente, regresar a los sistemas anteriores y hacerlos lo más efectivos posible en el nuevo contexto. Luego de un año de turbulencia, los empleados y el público en general no están muy tentados con el cambio. —Escenario de “Race Back to Normal” (“Carrera para volver […]
June 2020, Spanish
Las autoridades locales se centran en reinstaurar los servicios rápidamente, regresar a los sistemas anteriores y hacerlos lo más efectivos posible en el nuevo contexto. Luego de un año de turbulencia, los empleados y el público en general no están muy tentados con el cambio. —Escenario de “Race Back to Normal” (“Carrera para volver […]
Agua en el oeste
Hallar y financiar soluciones para capturar agua pluvial
June 2020, Spanish
Luego de varias horas de lluvia ligera en Tucson, el agua tapa las calles del modesto vecindario Palo Verde. El tráfico obstaculiza un cruce importante, donde un vehículo de emergencia proyecta una señal de luces rojas y azules para que los autos esquiven una sección anegada de la calle. Junto a las aceras de […]
June 2020, Spanish
Luego de varias horas de lluvia ligera en Tucson, el agua tapa las calles del modesto vecindario Palo Verde. El tráfico obstaculiza un cruce importante, donde un vehículo de emergencia proyecta una señal de luces rojas y azules para que los autos esquiven una sección anegada de la calle. Junto a las aceras de […]
June 2020, English
Think Land Policy Is Unrelated to Racial Injustice? Think Again.
June 2020, English
In the depths of the Great Depression, with the housing market in shambles and roughly half of America’s home mortgages in default, the U.S. Congress stepped in to provide massive emergency relief. From 1933 to 1936, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) refinanced more than $3 billion in mortgages—equivalent to roughly $1 trillion as […]
June 2020, English
In the depths of the Great Depression, with the housing market in shambles and roughly half of America’s home mortgages in default, the U.S. Congress stepped in to provide massive emergency relief. From 1933 to 1936, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) refinanced more than $3 billion in mortgages—equivalent to roughly $1 trillion as […]
The Destiny of Density
Affordability, Equity, and the Impacts of an Insidious Virus
June 2020, English
As cities around the world begin the slow and careful process of recovering from the initial wave of devastation caused by the novel coronavirus, their quest for resilience hinges on one characteristic that has long been a foundational asset: density. The ravages of the last six months — 500,000 lives lost and counting, record […]
June 2020, English
As cities around the world begin the slow and careful process of recovering from the initial wave of devastation caused by the novel coronavirus, their quest for resilience hinges on one characteristic that has long been a foundational asset: density. The ravages of the last six months — 500,000 lives lost and counting, record […]
