Tag: Flooding

  • The Grassroots Community of Urban Planning

    The Grassroots Community of Urban Planning

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    Alexis Jones
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    There’s a group called Strong Towns. It’s a national group, started by Charles Marohn, with the intent to shift our building priorities from the WWI-era thinking that generated most of them. Some chapters key in on fighting the vampiric dominance of the single-family home model, passing ADU policy, and affordable housing. Here in Houston, we’re…

  • #LostSpacesCommunity2025

    #LostSpacesCommunity2025

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    Alexis Jones
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    Moments like this panel is why this organization needs to exist. The Lost Spaces Conference is a yearly event targeting independent developers who plan to do renovate homes in at-risk communities. From a sustainability professional’s point of view, independent developers are the builders committing the largest number of “offenses”. They don’t mean to – we…