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Topic: Urban Flooding
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topics: Data Analysis, Urban Flooding, Water
Chicago Urban Flood Detection Pilot In August 2025, Center for Neighborhood Technology in partnership with Verizon and Hyfi launched an urban flood detection pilot to better understand how flooding impacts neighborhoods across the city. The pilot includes 50 sensors built by Hyfi and deployed...
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topics: Urban Flooding, Water
Partnering with other groups and centering community residents’ experience to address immediate flood risks and correct long-standing inequities in infrastructure planning
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topics: Urban Flooding
The risk of urban flooding is not one big wave, but thousands of ponds and puddles. Deep-water accumulations on streets and under viaducts, in parking lots, basements, and yards can make one street impassable while one street over is relatively dry. Urban flooding—when the local sewer system...
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topics: Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Urban Flooding, Water
The Center for Neighborhood Technology is partnering with Greenprint Partners and Cook County to implement green infrastructure projects in six RainReady communities in the Calumet Corridor: Blue Island, Calumet City, Calumet Park, Dolton, Riverdale, and Robbins.
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topics: Environmental Justice, Urban Flooding, Water
Residents used community-based participatory research to frame questions and plan local improvements
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topics: Environmental Justice, Housing, Urban Flooding
Our housing as infrastructure conversation in mid-November brought together attorneys and advocates to talk about the intersection of housing justice and climate justice. Panelists Meleah Geertsma from Alliance for the Great Lakes and Kennedy Moehrs Gardner from Equity Legal Services shared...
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topics: Environmental Justice, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Urban Flooding, Water
The Calumet Region is a region in which infrastructure solutions are planned and built with resident and community leadership.
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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Environmental Justice, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Flooding, Water
A quantitative and qualitative look at urban flooding that visualizes flooding indicators and urban flooding locations in the Calumet Region of Cook County.
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topics: Climate, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Flooding, Water
“We always think it’s going to be a big movement, a big force, something that’s beyond ourselves that’s going to be our solution when in fact, it’s us– the moms, the grandmoms, the kids,” Lorée Washington, a Riverdale community leader, said during a recent virtual workshop for residents of South...
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topics: Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Flooding, Water
If you had a chance to press pause, reflect, and bask for a moment in the great work you and your team, partners, and funders achieved, what would that carefully curated day look like? Inspired by a request from Kresge Foundation Environment Program Officer Yeou-Rong Jih, we took an equitable...