Urban Systems Lab Annual Report 2022
The Urban Systems Lab has had an incredible past year with our students, faculty and staff creating new knowledge and engaging for impact at local, national and international scales and in multiple cities across the world. From launching the Flood Vulnerability Health Assessment for Milwaukee, to providing core design, research and dataviz to support the WE ACT Climate Ready Uptown Plan in NYC for local community driven emergency response and planning. We are also excited to play a key role in launching the NYC Climate Vulnerability and Impact study to bring new science into the 4th Assessment of the NYC Panel on Climate Change, co-authoring multiple chapters for the recent IPCC reports with multiple members and USL collaborators contributing, and launching the NATURA Global Roadmap for Urban Nature-based Solutions at COP15 and the IPCC Summary for Urban Policy Makers at COP27, and much more.
This year, the USL continues to expand the diversity, reach, and impact of our collective work, and may be our most productive and impactful years yet. Between new awards, grants, publications, reports, events, collaborations and press, our shared work highlights the diverse and talented people that make up the USL. We will continue in 2023 to advance our core mission to provide the fundamental scientific urban data, knowledge and design working across multiple disciplines to support communities and cities to transform themselves for resilience to climate change, for improving equity for the most vulnerable, and to drive adaptation efforts that invest in nature-based solutions.
Timon McPhearson, Director, Urban Systems Lab, Professor of Urban Ecology, The New School