Site of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association.
Article on a 'digital mapping project that allows the youth to create digital maps of their communities and then interact with that map by publicly tagging the issues they see. This cutting-edge mapping platform enables real-time data collection through web and mobile applications.'
Blog essay outlining innovative and visionary community recovery planning in response to the April 20, 2004 tornado in North Utica, Illinois. Includes interesting details about effort to bring together diverse funding sources to support the recovery plan.
'This paper provides a methodology and a set of indicators for measuring baseline characteristics of communities that foster resilience.'
This paper describes how urban centers in low- and middle-income countries concentrate a large proportion of those most at risk from the effects of climate change. The paper also develops an operational tool - an asset adaptation framework - that serves to highlight the measures and interventions needed to address not only long-term protection from climate change, but also to support low-income households and communities to cope with extreme-weather related disasters during pre-disaster damage limitation, immediate post-disaster responses and rebuilding.
An article by Homeless International about the CLIFF which provides venture capital and other financial products directly to organisations of the urban poor, to support community-led slum upgrading schemes conceived in partnership with city authorities.
Conference on integrating practice, policy and theory toward a "systematic interdisciplinary strategy for shaping communities for greater safety during ongoing planning and development as well as during post-disaster recovery and rebuilding".
A paper arguing "that the conversation should focus special attention on alleviating concentrated urban poverty—the segregation of poor families into extremely distressed neighborhoods."
