By Anne Lissett // Alison Sant’s inspiring book showcases how individual communities, local community leaders, and grassroots organizations have put the classic adage “Think global, act local” into action and made real, meaningful improvements to quality of life while reducing carbon emissions in major American cities.
By Maureen Nandini Mitra // The key to regenerative cities ultimately rests in a broad sense of community.
By Alison Sant // Alison Sant laid the foundation for her book with a simple premise–best resiliency practices come from the Car-centric streets are dangerous and perpetuate inequity, but the pandemic has pointed us to ways we can better use our public spaces.
By Rachel Carson // We caught up with the Co-Founder of Studio for Urban Projects and author Alison Sant to talk about her recently published book ‘From the Ground Up.’ Listen to the conversation on our threesixtyCITY podcast or read an excerpt from the book below. Our conversation covers: how to converge bottom-up and top-down efforts—forging healthy relationships between grassroots…
Especially and unreservedly recommended reading for environmental activists and governmental policy makers, ‘From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities’ is a clarion and illustrated call to action regarding the necessity for communities to become climate resilient in the face of inexorable climate change driven impacts while acknowledging and addressing the unfortunate social and racial injustice of past…
By Alison Sant // What began in 2005 as Park(ing) Day evolved into part of a global movement for transforming city streets. In 2005, a San Francisco collective of artists and designers called Rebar ignited a global street intervention, which later became …
Alison Sant laid the foundation for her book with a simple premise, – best resiliency practices come from the communities that are on the front lines. After more than ninety interviews with community activists, city officials, scientists and urban designers across the country Sant’s book is finally complete. It is available online, will be hitting the bookstores in February and…
By Alison Sant // For more than three decades, US cities have experimented with ways to remake themselves in response to climate change. From tactical interventions and urban prototypes to pilot projects, streets have been reconfigured to accommodate people, bikes, and transit. Roads, parks, and backyards have been made absorbent. Forest canopies have been broadened and urban waters restored. These…
