Is There Data About How Well Planning Works?

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There's no agency in california that is empowered to read all these city plans, with the exception of housing. Without this data ante structure and ability to read all the hazard plans, an ability to help communities come up to date, particularly cash trap communitieswere in trouble. If you don't have an up to date hazard plan, you're not eligible for fima pay out if disaster strikes. And with forty % of the population across the us. Experiencing a major climate hazard just last year, this is really big problem.

The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringing in resources from outside, separated from the labors of subsistence so they can engage in the trade of goods and ideas. But we are still learning how cities grow and adapt to new conditions, as well as how we can best guide them to be livable as well as functional. I talk with urban scientist Catherine Brinkley about the structure of cities, including the fractal nature of their shapes, as well as what we can do to make cities thrive as much as possible.

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Catherine Brinkley received a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning as well as a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently Associate Professor of Human Ecology and Faculty Director at the Center for Regional Change at the University of California, Davis. She has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, and the Santa Fe Institute.