Wildfires, urban heat, sea level rise, and the many other impacts of climate change are starting to turn desirable communities into high-risk locations and threatening food and water supplies. How, when, and where will displaced people move? How are cities preparing for the loss or gain of climate migrants? Award-winning author and investigative reporter Abrahm Lustgarten shares research from his new book on these questions. Host Ellen Dunham-Jones leads a follow-up discussion with Abrahm, Jairo Garcia of Georgia Tech, and Camille Cortes and Matt Lambert, both of DPZ-Co-Design and leaders of PLACE Initiative.

Amanda Loper, principal of David Baker Architects and director of the Birmingham, AL office is an expert on designing beautiful, affordable and market rate housing that's both contemporary and local. Ellen Dunham-Jones interviews her in this follow up to her lecture at GA Tech on her and David's new book, Nine Ways to Make Housing for People.(see the video on the Redesigning Cities website.) They discuss designing housing for people vs as a commodity, "small but mighty" interventions, how to determine what "better here"looks like, and some nerdy details of financing affordable housing that we all can expand on.

Cities only have a finite amount of land – does it make sense that they tax lower density areas at a lower rate? How should cities balance the cost of maintaining infrastructure on a per acre basis with how land use policies impact the amount of property taxes those same acres produce? Joe Minicozzi explains the simple math that anyone interested in redesigning cities should know. This fascinating talk relies heavily on visuals. Listeners unfamiliar with his 3D visualizations of property tax/acre revenues showing short green spikes for low values and “purple mountains” of tall spikes for high value properties may prefer to watch the video of Joe’s talk.