Taubman graduate Kristin Baja, Climate and Resilience Planner for the City of Baltimore's Office of Sustainability, returned to her alma mater last week to offer advice on preparing cities for climate change while prioritizing their most vulnerable residents.
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Rich Bunnell
Agora editor Rich Bunnell's love of urban planning initially took root as urban wanderlust, specifically a love of taking long, meandering walks through great American cities. The peak of this obsession came in late spring 2012, when he vowed to walk 100 miles in all five boroughs of New York City — and a little bit of New Jersey.
NBC's Parks and Recreation came into its own when Amy Poehler's Leslie Knope evolved from a hapless dope into a champion advocate — and in a strange but telling way, the show's evolution reflects the actual evolution of U.S. planning as a profession over the 20th century.
The name "Los Angeles" is synonymous with urban sprawl, yet in spite of that, it is the most dense urbanized area in the United States. This apparent contradiction sheds light on what an ill-defined, psychological concept "sprawl" is, with the phenomenon coming in several distinct and widely varying forms.
Cinema has long been a projection of society’s dreams, fears, ambitions and prejudices, and planning is a major factor. Whether set in postwar Vienna or the lonely U.S. highway system, blockbusters and art-house films alike have demonstrated the complex, evolving ways people interact with—and react to—the modern world.