Climate-smart built environment: Housing, infrastructure & land use

Brookings Metro is developing innovative local and regional approaches to built environment planning, construction, and management, with the aim of promoting climate mitigation, environmental resilience, and more equitable local economies.

Silhouette of a man drinking water during heat wave

Climate Change Americans should worry more about extreme heat

Jenny Schuetz, Adie Tomer

May 6, 2024

Tall Liquid ambar, commonly called sweetgum tree, or American Sweet gum tree, lining an older neighborhood in Northern California

Cities & Communities Community development in the critical climate decade

Xavier de Souza Briggs, Annie Donovan

May 2, 2024

Airplane landing over Route 163, San Diego, California.

Climate Adaptation & Resilience How climate risk data can help communities become more resilient

Jenny Schuetz, Adie Tomer, Julia Gill, Caroline George

December 4, 2023

Gold Star Memorial Bridges in New London, Connecticut. Two highway bridges in diminishing perspective, low angle view.

Infrastructure At its two-year anniversary, the bipartisan infrastructure law continues to rebuild all of America

Adie Tomer

November 15, 2023

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