@zacharylamb
UC Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning. 'The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis' (MIT Press 2024) https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549868/the-equitably-resilient-city
Super interesting piece on Portland, OR's shift to allowing small homes on wheels! A great option on many levels: costs, speed, permitting, flexibility.
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
This sounds great! I'd be happy to contribute to route reviews. I bike commute with kids everyday and do lots of other transport and recreation riding in the area.
Lafayette Park, where a large mountain lion was tranquilized yesterday, is deep in the urban fabric of San Francisco. Amazing.
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
Remembering Clare Cooper Marcus. Her radical ideas: housing should be designed 'as if people mattered' and designers should care about the experience of living in and using the environments they create.
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Excited to be in conversation with the amazing Kazi Khalid Ashraf next week during his talk at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social about his recent book, "The Great Padma".
chowdhurycenter.berkeley.edu
‘You look at this and think: it’s going to be impossible’
European football leaders are increasingly concerned about Donald Trump’s wish to annex Greenland, and they have held initial discussions about how the sport could respond.
Could there really be a boycott of the World Cup?
Dutch petition asking government to boycott the Trump FIFA World Cup in the US, later this year.
actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...
Very excited for this gathering starting today and always delighted to be back in New Orleans.
BREAKING: Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead and a jam band icon, dies at 78.
Property regimes and climate adaptation. Check out this new article by @lindashi.bsky.social @zacharylamb.bsky.social that very suggests alternatives to guide planners' actions to challenge status quo ideas about the privatization and parcelization of land www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Interesting analysis from Brian Potter about factory-built housing in Sweden (h/t @zacharylamb.bsky.social). Manufactured housing in the U.S. offers significant cost-savings but Sweden's factories produce housing that is similar in cost to site-built: www.construction-physics.com/p/should-us-...
We don't just diagnose the problem. We also explore how common practices (e.g., HOAs, condos) and less common strategies (e.g., rolling easements and CLTs) create possibilities for more just and effective adaptation.
We argue that dominant property regimes are overwhelmingly: static, fragmented, and commodified. Transformative adaptation - on the other hand - requires: flexibility, collective action, and a focus on justice.
This OPEN ACCESS article with @lindashi.bsky.social & Rob Olshansky explores how dominant property practices inhibit climate adaptation.
Governing Land on a Dynamic Earth: How Property Shapes Planning for Equitable Climate Adaptation www-tandfonline-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/doi/full/10....
We explore how urban design can contribute to climate transformation & avoid what we call #ClimateHaussmannization, image-driven mega-projects that harm already vulnerable people.
journals-sagepub-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/doi/10.1177/...
This JPL article with Luna Khirfan is a couple of years old, but we just resolved an issue & it's now OPEN ACCESS.
journals-sagepub-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/doi/10.1177/...
Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
Outdoor Supply on Ashby too...
This is the conclusion that I hope we will draw from the Zillow drama... that we need a gold-standard national data source for property-level risk to climate hazards that is transparent, accessible, and legally defensible. Private companies can help build it but the public needs to own it.
Just learning of Sara Terry's death. Such a loss. We only met a couple of times, but I was so impressed and inspired by how she brought humanity, joy, and creativity to her work, even as she dealt with really dark and difficult subjects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a....
Danika Cooper at Berkeley is working on this.
Mobile home parks have their problems (e.g., disconnection from their surroundings, climate/hazard vulnerability, extractive landlords), but it's time for designers & planners to take their many benefits seriously too.
Our research suggests that: compared to their adjacent site built residential neighborhoods, mobile home parks tend to be denser, have more internally connected street grids, and narrower, more walkable streets.
NEW (open access) PAPER IN JAPA:
Can Mobile Home Parks Be Good Urbanism?
Spoiler: YES! By many measures of 'good urbanism,' mobile home parks are as good or better than neighboring residential areas.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tell me again how it's bad that Bowdoin taught Mamdani to see 'historical events from the perspective of marginalized and oppressed groups'?
Seems a good foundation for leading a global city.
Also the core message of most religious/ethical traditions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
Do you live near Berkeley High or Washington Elementary, or do you have children enrolled there? Come join us at a workshop tomorrow to help make walking and biking to, from, and around the schools safer.
📅Oct. 29 5:30-6:30pm
📌Washington Elementary
Community Message:
This was a fun conversation about our ongoing research on tensions between street safety and fire/EMS operations... and how to overcome them.
StreetSmart 11: Exploring Fire Department Tensions in the “War for Street Space” - cal.streetsblog.org/2025/10/22/s...
Great story from @kqednews.kqed.org on evictions and other threats facing residents in a San Rafael mobile home park since it sold to a corporate owner known for such tactics.
www.kqed.org/news/1205801...
“At some point it becomes embarrassing, in a craven way, to make a deal for yourself and abandon those institutions that are standing up for academic freedom...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
