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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · 1d

New essay with @anoukfransen.bsky.social on the workshop we organized last spring in Detroit.

The Nature of Cities @tnoc.bsky.social · 1d

#TNOCessay
Detroit is not empty.
A participatory (counter) mapping workshop revealed the city’s networks of care, connection, and nature, challenging old narratives of “vacancy.”

How can mapping become a tool for empowerment and belonging, not exclusion?

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · 11d

We hosted the SW-IFL All Hands Meeting at the @uarizona.bsky.social with over 65 researchers, students, and stakeholders from across the state yesterday, and finally had a chance to get a group photo of our current Planning Discovery research team, led by @sarameerow.bsky.social and me!

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Aug 21

Over the years I've researched how #urban #resilience is conceptualized by different academic disciplines, practitioners, & the public. I synthesized my thinking on the concept in a book chapter based on a talk at the 2022 Association for Literary Urban Studies Conference: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Urban Resilience: Disruptive Discourse or More of the Same for Cities?

Urban resilience discourse has become increasingly pervasive over the last decade, with numerous studies, policy initiatives, and plans focusing on resilient cities. Whether this urban resilience agen...

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Aug 19

New article on #heat governance & climate services. We interviewed and surveyed heat practitioners from across the US about their challenges and decision-support needs: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Cover of Too hot to handle: Assessing practitioner climate service needs to advance heat resilience article in Climate Services journal

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Aug 11

It's hot almost everywhere & our team has 2 new studies of #heat #planning both led by former master's students: One on #Vienna, Austria and the other looking at 2 neighborhoods in #Boston:
Vienna: authors.elsevier.com/a/1la4Z7sfVZ...

Boston: doi.org/10.1080/0735...

picture of journal article cover for Planning for heat resilience in increasingly vulnerable cities: A case study of Vienna, Austria

picture of journal article cover: Planning to mitigate heat in vulnerable neighborhoods: Applyingthe Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ for Heat in twoBoston neighborhoods

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Jul 3

Some good news today: 2 of the geography PhD students in my lab successfully defended their dissertations! Congrats to new Drs. Philip Gilbertson and Alex Cliff for your persistence and important work on climate resilience!

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · Jun 27

I was reflecting on the heatwave that impacted much of the U.S. this week, my Op-Ed from 2021 with @sarameerow.bsky.social is just as relevant today as it was then: "The reality is that all cities, regardless of size or location, need to plan for heat resilience now." news.trust.org/item/...

Cities must plan for heat resilience now

Shocking heatwaves in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Canada show preparation for climate-driven extreme heat needs work - fast

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Jun 25

An amazing way to kick off my month at NCAR in Boulder this summer!

Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · Jun 25

Spent the last two days at NCAR in beautiful Boulder, CO for a NSF extreme heat workshop with fellow heat scholars and inspiring early career academics. Here's @sarameerow.bsky.social presenting our heat governance work! #extremeheat #heatgovernance #heatresilience

Sara Meerow presenting on heat governance

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Jun 20

New paper led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social proposing a planning framework for navigating synergies and trade-offs between heat and flood resilience & applying it to evaluate Baltimore, MD's network of plans. Part of our team's new work on multihazard resilience authors.elsevier.com/c/1lIRw7t2zZ...

planning framework for flood-heat hazard synergies and tradeoffs

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Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social · Jun 12

NEW JUA #ARTICLE: Heat mitigation and management in the City of Phoenix, Arizona: A case study of America’s hottest large city www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @bhanlonurban.bsky.social

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · Jun 16

Cities are adapting to increasingly long, frequent, and intense heat waves and their unequally distributed effects. PSC alum @sarameerow.bsky.social et al report on Phoenix, AZ, a city that epitomizes these challenges and innovations needed to address them. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · Jun 13

The second, led by @shaylynntrego.bsky.social‬, is a case study of heat governance in Phoenix, Arizona, and discusses the nation's first publicly funded office of heat mitigation and response and related efforts to address extreme heat. doi.org/10.1080/0735...

Heat mitigation and management in the City of Phoenix, Arizona: A case study of America’s hottest large city

The increasing frequency, intensity, and duration of heat waves due to climate change have escalated the occurrence of extreme heat risks, raising significant concerns in many cities. The unequal d...

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · Jun 13

The first, led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social‬, compares plan integration for extreme heat and flooding in Baltimore, Maryland, and explores policy co-benefits, trade-offs, and the possibility for maladaptation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A comparison of plan integration for flood and heat resilience: A case study of Baltimore, Maryland

Due to the deadly and costly impacts of flooding, extreme heat, and limited resources for resilience-building efforts, cities need win-win strategies …

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · Jun 13

Two new heat resilience papers from our research team this week! @sarameerow.bsky.social #heatresilience #extremeheat

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Jun 12

As summer heats up and communities prepare, people often want to know what Phoenix, America's hottest large city, is doing to mitigate & manage heat. PhD student @shaylynntrego.bsky.social led this case study now published in the Journal of Urban Affairs: doi.org/10.1080/0735...
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Cover of paper: Heat mitigation and management in the City of Phoenix, Arizona

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UofA Heat Resilience Initiative @heatresilience.bsky.social · May 8

AZ's official Heat Awareness week has five themes and today is Take Action. @laddkeith.com and @sarameerow.bsky.social wrote Planning for Urban Heat Resilience, a report providing holistic guidance to help increase urban heat resilience equitably in communities across the U.S. tinyurl.com/plan-heat

Planning for Urban Heat Resilience

Planners seeking to increase their communities’ urban heat resilience can equitably prepare for and adapt to both chronic and acute heat risk through heat mitigation and management strategies.

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Apr 26

Congrats!

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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · Apr 18

What does FEMA’s retreat from hazard mitigation programs mean for states and communities? @wcurrangroome.bsky.social, @sara-mctarnaghan.bsky.social and I break down the impacts of the administration’s decisions, by state and congressional district: www.urban.org/urban-wire/f...

FEMA Is Eliminating Hazard Mitigation Programs, Leaving Americans Nationwide at Risk as Disasters Worsen

Cancelling the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program and funding for future Flood Mitigation Assistance grants would end most federal funding for predisaster hazard mitigation, eve...

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Apr 2

New #OpenAccess publication from our team led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social: Systematic lit review of methods for spatial planning of green infrastructure for #stormwater & #heat mitigation reveals siloed literatures & few multifunctional approaches #GreenInfrastructure #NBS doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Mar 25

Kicking off 4 days of #urban #greening curated track sessions at #AAG2025 in Huntington Place rm 320. Join us #UrbanForestry, #GreenInfrastructure, #NatureBasedSolution folks!

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Mar 18

Our special issue on #Green #Infrastructure Futures is now complete in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Including our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ianmell.bsky.social @mitchzuckerman.bsky.social @oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social & Sarah Clement

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Mar 13

Requirements for US climate change planning are now almost certainly going to have to come from state governments. Our research on California suggests that even a flexible, unfunded, & untracked mandate improves planning
doi.org/10.1080/0194...
50 free downloads: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IHS3P...

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Feb 26

Check out our new paper on #flood #risk and #resilience in Houston

aaflores.bsky.social @aaflores.bsky.social · Feb 26

New paper t.co/q5YuiEZGLt led by @arizonastateuni.bsky.social PhD student Yilei Yu! 56% of flood-prone buildings in Houston are located outside of FEMA’s 100-year flood zones. These “overlooked” zones are disproportionately home to buildings that are lower quality and often uninsured.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11111-025-00485-8

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Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social · Feb 13

Amidst the chaos, the fantastic CAP LTER program at ASU is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Urban Social-Ecological Systems: apply.interfolio.com/163268

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Julian Agyeman @julianagyeman.bsky.social · Jan 23

Check out our Cities@Tufts Podcasts and Videos! Hear @lorettaclees.bsky.social @jenniecstephens.bsky.social @norton.bsky.social @drnoelhealy.bsky.social @tamikabutler.bsky.social @sarameerow.bsky.social @ianguelovski.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social and more!

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Cities@Tufts Colloquium

Shareable and Tufts University Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning co-present this ongoing free lecture series hosted by professor Shareable and Tufts University co-present Citie...

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