This requires a collaborative effort and interventions of stakeholders at all levels of society (e.g., urban planners, residents, utilities, housing sector, and various public corporations). Interventions to reach milestones towards heat mitigation goals require: (i) Combination of increased urban ...
Infrastructure Resilience: Strong and resilient infrastructure is essential for urban resilience. This includes designing and constructing buildings, roads, bridges, and utilities that can withstand natural disasters and other threats. Integrating smart technologies into infrastructure systems can also enhance r...
Virginia Cheung is an SFUSD parent with early childhood education experience who has been working on engaging families in the “Resource Alignment Initiative” (ie. SFUSD’s effort to close schools and reassign students to address the budget shortfall). Jaime Huling is a deputy city attorney and...
The evidence base need to support new investment vehicles is already being created. In Canada, for example, acollaboration between Canadian insurers and cities has developed a set of tools to create a common understanding of the financial risk created by the effects of climate change on the resil...
(utilities), along withurban green spaceand parks (Wolch, Byrne, & Newell, 2014). Categorizing urban ecological structure and function as such is obviously a simplification of the biological and ecological processes underway in urban areas. Finally, socio-economic dynamics such as monetary capital,...
14 Belissent (2010) A city that uses ICTs to make the critical infrastructure components and services of a city––administration, education, healthcare, public safety, real estate, transportation, and utilities––more aware, interactive, and efficient Technology, accessibility, liveability, governance...
We will produce an increasing amount of energy at home; whether from existing technologies such as solar panels orcombined heat and power (CHP)systems; or through new techniques such asbio-energy. The relationships between households, businesses, utilities and transportation will change as we become...
The conventional grid, however, fails to address the heterogeneous electricity service demands across different neighborhood settings, namely: (a) affordability in low-income settlements and sufficient reliability in middle-income areas; (b) timely grid connectivity in peri-urban settlements; and (c) ...
of developing countries. The context of developing countries is very different from that of developed countries for at least four reasons: Very different mobility/traffic patterns and modal shares, Low availability of electric utilities, Limited availability of capital, both on the utility side and ...
design principles aimed at creating more sustainable and resilient cities. Containing actions that are applicable at theneighborhood scale, the guide strives to present an integrated approach that responds to key sectors such astransportation,local urban initiatives,housing,public spaces, utilities, and ...