Urban Planning

“These unlikely, freak events are really the ones that break us,” says Matthijs Bouw of the Weitzman School of Design.

Eugénie L. Birch and Mauricio Rodas of the Weitzman School of Design write that, “52% of surveyed cities already use AI in some capacity and another 32% plan to, yet only 31% have established a formal ethics review process — even though 88% of them rate ethics as very or absolutely important.”

“[Trees] also mitigate urban heat islands. … They’re very important with intercepting rain and stormwater in order to slow down runoff and reduce the possibilities of flooding,” says Dean Frederick Steiner of the Weitzman School of Design.

“At the core of this, we have a housing affordability problem, which is distinctly related to the housing supply problem. But when we think of solutions, we really have to center the affordability issues,” says Vincent Reina of the Weitzman School of Design.

Vincent Reina of the Weitzman School of Design discusses a bipartisan affordable housing bill that includes dozens of provisions to lower prices and increase housing supply.