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Marcella Bondie Keenan, Preeti Shankar, and Peter Haas

Flooding is the most common and costliest type of natural disaster in the United States (Lightbody, 2017). According to a 2017 report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, federal insurance claims averaged $1.9 billion annually between 2006 and 2015. Metropolitan Chicago...Read more

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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development

Since 2008,  when gas prices reached record highs, CNT’s H+T Affordability Index has highlighted the impacts of gas prices on household transportation costs.  The Total Driving Costs tool allows users to slide the gas price up or down and see how volatility in the price at the pump impacts...

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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Policy, Urban Flooding, Water

The Urban Flooding Baseline Project seeks to clearly define the problem of urban flooding in the Calumet region using available quantitative data sources and first-hand pictorial data from residents to improve flood mitigation plans. At the end of July, we completed the Pilot and Phase 1 of the...

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Tool

topics: Data Analysis, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Flooding, Water

The Green Values Calculator compares the performance, costs, and benefits of Green Infrastructure to conventional stormwater practices.

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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Environmental Justice, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Policy, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation

The Urban Opportunity Agenda website offers ideas and metrics for simultaneously combatting poverty and promoting urban sustainability.

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Publication

topics: Data Analysis, Environmental Justice, Urban Flooding, Water

Flooding is the most common and costliest type of natural disaster in the United States (Lightbody, 2017). According to a 2017 report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, federal insurance claims averaged $1.9 billion annually between 2006 and 2015. Metropolitan Chicago is not immune to these impacts. To...

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Project

topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Environmental Justice, Urban Flooding, Water

Assessing disparities of urban flood risk for households of color in Chicago.

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topics: Data Analysis, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Flooding, Water

Is your home ready for increased storm events in a time of climate change? My RainReady helps you discover what issues you may have, and how you can address them.

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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Housing, Parking Utilization, Policy, Transportation

GreenTRIP Connect is a California statewide tool that allows users to evaluate a prospective housing development’s potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to driving.

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topics: Data Analysis, Housing, Parking Utilization, Policy, Transportation

The Park Right DC calculator helps community members, developers, zoning bodies, planners, and other stakeholders better understand parking utilization in multi-family residential buildings in the District of Columbia.

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