Storm Smart Cities: Integrating Green Infrastructure into Local Hazard Mitigation Plans
This guide provides an overview of local hazard mitigation planning; a guide to establishing a multi-disciplinary planning team; and demonstrates…
This guide provides an overview of local hazard mitigation planning; a guide to establishing a multi-disciplinary planning team; and demonstrates…
This thoughtful and data-rich paper explores the issue of endemic long-term vacancies on urban neighborhoods and describes some of the…
Building on experiences garnered during the Baltimore Wood Project, this case study is organized in a manner that fosters collaborative…
Los Angeles is dividing the creation of its new Urban Forest Management Plan into two distinct phases. The FIRST STEP…
Lays out a comprehensive framework that addresses risk from wildfire and other hazards at multiple scales, and identifies how better planning…
In 2016, Canton was awarded a landscape restoration grant from the US Forest Service. Among specific criteria for the grant…
While more and more organizations – domestic and international, public and private – are promoting community resilience to lower disaster tolls, transforming…
As one of the nation’s most wildfire-prone states, it’s not surprising that California also manages one of the most sophisticated…
The Gold ordinance includes the same criteria of the Silver ordinance but also provides for regulation of the urban forest on private…
Ordinances are the framework for community cooperation and expectation. Tree ordinances are necessary to preserve and protect municipal resources and…
The Greenprint Resource Hub is intended to help planners, policymakers, and the public learn about greenprints and how they can…
This comprehensive manual summarizes regulations and specifications for design elements of public spaces. Places high emphasis on multi-benefit planning and…