Episode 49: Urban Design, Climate Change, Equity and Resilience

Barbara Brown Wilson is an associate professor of urban and environmental planning at the UVa School of Architecture, and a co-founder and faculty director at the UVa Democracy Initiative Center for the Redress of Inequity through Community-Engaged Scholarship (aka The Equity Center). Her research and teaching focus on the history, theory, ethics, and practice of planning for climate justice, and on the role of urban social movements in the built world. Dr. Wilson writes for both academic and mainstream audiences, and is the author of Resilience for All: Striving for Equity through Community-Driven Design (Island Press: 2018), and co-author of Questioning Architectural Judgement: The Problem of Codes in the United States (Routledge: 2013). Her research is often change-oriented, meaning she collaborates with community partners to identify opportunities to move our communities, and the field of urban planning, toward social and environmental justice.

Show Notes

- Shift to be aware of whole system of design of cities, to include our environment

- Cradle to Cradle - Bill McDonough

- Waste can equal food and closed systems

- Climate change and planning

- Shoes made out of water bottles

- Climate change and equity and urban planning

- Zip codes’ effects on equity. More

- Looking for solutions upstream

- Resilience

- Ecological resilience

- Engineering resilience

- Inclusivity resilience

- New York Times mass migration

- Processing trauma with respect to climate change

- Bayou by You in Biloxi

- Friendship Court

- More about Friendship Court

- Countering urban renewal

- Center for Non Profit Excellence