MEDIA & WEBINARS

City Parks: America’s New Infrastructure – Multi-Use 

With growing urban populations and aging infrastructure, local governments and their city planners are taking a fresh look at parks as a wise investment of municipal resources to address our greatest urban challenges—from stormwater management and flood prevention to reducing public health costs to economic revitalization and job growth.
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Biophilic Cities: Design for Planetary Health and Human Flourishing 

CED Guest Lecture Series, February 26, 2020 
Dr. Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia “Biophilic Cities: Design for Planetary Health and Human Flourishing” This lecture was supported by the Seymour Fund. 
Beatley believes that sustainable and resilient cities represent our best hope for addressing today’s environmental challenges.
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City Parks: America’s New Infrastructure – Overview 

“City Parks: America’s New Infrastructure” is the first video in a five-part series from City Parks Alliance documenting the multi-functional benefits of urban parks. With growing urban populations and aging infrastructure, local governments and their city planners are taking a fresh look at parks as a wise investment of municipal resources to address our greatest urban challenges—from stormwater management and flood prevention to reducing public health costs to economic revitalization and job growth. 
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 A breakthrough agenda on climate finance 

 In this sixth interview of the “17 Rooms” podcast, Amar Bhattacharya and John Podesta discuss a “breakthrough” agenda on climate finance, which is necessary to deliver on greater climate ambition and ensure synergy with the sustainable development agenda. Bhattacharya, senior fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development at The Brookings Institution and Podesta, chair and founder of the Center for American Progress, moderated Room 13 focused on Sustainable Development Goal number 13—on climate action—during the 2021 17 Rooms flagship process. 

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/a-breakthrough-agenda-on-climate-finance/

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The Olmsted Conference 

Beginning on American History TV, C-SPAN, aired a conference on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, founder of American landscape architecture. The video presents Laurie Olin discussing FLO’s influence on the landscapes of college campuses across the country including Stanford. Landscape architect Mark Hough discussed Olmsted’s work on the Duke University Campus. The conference was held at the National Building Museum on October 27, 2021. 

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“Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics” by Michael Barone 

Summary. 

Shaping Our Nation provides a great perspective on American society and the culture of urban America and its cities. The impact of different waves of immigrants is nicely illustrated in City of the Century, The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller.  This book is intense and dense; every sentence has information or insights about our history, where we came from and how the cultural traits from Europe, Asia and Latin America created the emotional landscape upon which to build the twenty-first American century. 

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Why millennials should move to smaller cities and towns. 

While social media and social norms tell us that big cities are the place to be, there’s a case to be made for post-industrial mid-sized cities across the United States. These are known as Prospect Cities and they’re giving millennials a great place to launch almost any career. They’re cheaper, close enough to the big city, and facing serious social challenges that millennials especially can help s

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