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Sustainability100 Resilient Cities Challenge Looking for Next Candidates
Last December, the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Challenge announced the first 32 cities selected in the program. The second round of the challenge has just opened.
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SustainabilityHow Cities Can Prepare for and Recover from Disaster: Ten Key Steps
Sir Bob Parker was mayorof New Zealand’s second-largest city, Christchurch, when it was devastated by a series of violent earthquakes in 2011.
Read MoreULI Report: Property Values Increasingly Threatened by Extreme Weather
The commercial real estate industry is failing to address the consequences of the extreme weather events that are a rising threat to property values, according to a ULI Europe report.
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Public PolicySan Francisco’s Bayview Plans for Resilience at the Neighborhood Level
San Franciscans assume that one day an earthquake will hit their city hard, thanks to the geologic fault line that runs below it. But one neighborhood leader has taken lessons from Hurricane Katrina, Los Angeles’ riots, and the Northridge earthquake to prepare.
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Resilience, Affordability Efforts Could Be Hurt by Bay Area’s Referendum
June 16, 2014With the vote on San Francisco’s waterfront height limit resolved last week, it’s time for residents to move on to more pressing waterfront issues: namely, rising sea levels.
Advisory Panel Makes Resilience Recommendations in Coastal Maine
June 12, 2014A resilience-themed ULI Advisory Services panels in Portland and South Portland focused on making the two cities’ waterfronts resilient in the face of climate change.
A Flexible Design Showcase: CBRE’s World Headquarters in Los Angeles
June 9, 2014Inside the brokerage giant’s new WELL-certified commercial office space.
Housing Helps Make Colorado One of the Healthiest States
June 2, 2014Developers in Colorado—which has a statewide vacancy rate of just 4.5 percent—are responding to increased demands from millennials and baby boomers for housing focused on healthy and intergenerational living, said Patrick Coyle, director of the state’s housing division, at the closing general session of the ULI Housing Opportunity 2014 conference in Denver.
Dialogue: What’s Next for Incorporating Energy Efficiency
May 30, 2014Industry leaders with experience in North America, Europe, and Asia share the latest on building energy efficiency.
Affordable Housing as a Vaccine for Healthier Children
May 19, 2014Medical professionals are now looking “upstream” to determine how to improve children’s health through housing, said speakers at the ULI Housing Opportunity conference.
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