Videos

Housing and Racial Justice: Current Events Urban Resilience

To understand housing inequities that exist today, we must look to how we have developed and built our communities in the past. Collectively, speakers in this webinar drew from their work to offer valuable insight into the current housing crisis in America, the lines that are drawn within it among race and income levels, and what steps are necessary for our cities to move forward.

Welcome & Keynote: Current Events Urban Resilience

Following opening remarks from Island Press and a welcome address from Ticco CEO Katie Rispoli Keaotamai, Shalanda Baker delivers a thoughtful keynote presentation! Stemming from her work in Mexico, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, Baker discusses COVID-19, racial justice, and why now is the time to advance civil rights through energy policy.

From West Coast to the Gulf Coast: How Regions are Bracing Themselves for a Changing Landscape: Current Events Urban Resilience

Across the nation cities are already experiencing real effects related to climate change. From longer wildfire seasons to rising sea levels, our communities need to take proactive steps to prepare themselves going forward. This webinar features practitioners who are working in communities that are already living in a new reality.

Harvesting Natural Resources: The State of Innovation and Current Threats to Quality of Life: Current Events Urban Resilience

The ways that we harvest, process, and distribute natural resources are heavy contributors to our collective climate burden - not just the use of the product itself. In this webinar we heard from a number of practitioners who are working on-the-ground in communities which hold a substantial reserve of these resources (and therefore face the strong industry presence that go along with it.)

Environmental Equity Fundamentals for Urban Planners: Current Events Urban Resilience

The work of an urban planner touches all aspects of our cities, and can have a real impact on the lives of those who live within them. In this session we will hear from those working within the urban planning community to enhance processes that enhance environmental equity and justice. Whether you're considering a career path in planning, just getting started, or have worked in the field for years - this webinar offers insights and practical tools that you can use when approaching your work.

Right of Way: How Racial and Class Disparities Created a Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. In 2018 alone more than 6,000 people were killed while walking in America. Yet, despite the increase in deaths, the tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture.

The Affordable City

Though the Bay Area has become one of the most expensive places in the world to live, housing affordability is by no means a local problem. Cities across the countries are struggling to tackle both high housing costs and household instability. Housing experts often debate whether the appropriate solution should be increased housing construction or stronger tenant protections, but the new book, The Affordable City, argues that a city can only be successful if the two work in tandem.

A New Deal for Planetary Health - Saving the Planet to Save Ourselves

Join Island Press and the Security and Sustainability Forum in an insightful discussion about the potential for A New Deal for Planetary Health. Building on the new Island Press publication, Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. Explore planetary health thinking to reimagine food, energy, placemaking, and the economy in ways that can lead to a convergence of human wellbeing and the protection of natural systems.

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America w/ Angie Schmitt

America Walks hosted a conversation with Angie Schmitt and Charles Brown. Contrary to popular opinion, pedestrian deaths in the United States are not unavoidable “accidents,” but highly predictable events, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequalities. The victims are disproportionately those marginalized by society: immigrants, People of Color, those with lower incomes, older people, and people with disabilities.

DIY City: The Collective Power of Small Actions

Please join RPA for a celebration and discussion of Hank Dittmar’s DIY City. Dittmar was a visionary urban planner whose ideas and influence can be seen around the world. In DIY City, Dittmar explains why individual initiative, small-scale business, and small development matter, using lively stories from his own experience and examples from recent history.