Two Iowa State University students, Keyhani Mahsa, and Josey Weaver, were selected to serve as interns at the 2023 LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio Summer Institute. Their engagement at the Summer Institute demonstrates one of the many benefits of professional exchanges among participants in the URSYS consortium. During the months […]
Yearly Archives: 2023
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Iowa State University Architecture Professor Kimberly Zarecor is quoted extensively in an Aug. 20 Cedar Rapids Gazette article by reporter Tom Barton titled “Rural Iowa continues to lose population. How some small towns are working to ‘shrink smart.’“ The article was a preview of the Gazette’s Iowa Ideas 2023 Virtual […]
The first regional URSYS workshop took place in Minneapolis from April 21 to 23 and engaged 37 researchers and community stakeholders. The workshop’s goal was to begin creating cross-disciplinary research collaborations among stakeholders in the MRB with the potential to identify themes and sites for future interdisciplinary grant proposals and […]
URSYS Steering Committee member Ulrike Passe was honored to be invited to attend the Mississippi River Summit organized by the Great Plains Action Society. The summit occurred from May 11 to 14th in the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa. The Great Plains Action Society organized the Mississippi River Summit […]
Steve Barlow wrote this article about how Memphis is fighting the blighting influences. Rundown: Memphis Fights Blight from Key Public Strategies on Vimeo.
In the midst of our battle to stop the Byhalia Oil Pipeline from its proposed route atop the Memphis Sand Aquifer, founding Board members—Ward Archer and Jim Kovarik—made this video in February 2021. After a two-year tussle with billion-dollar oil interests, Byhalia pulled its permits and canceled its pipeline in […]
Land Use Planning February 14, 2023 No Comments Research and projects will appear here to improve land use planning for urban communities and adjacent rural areas to reduce sprawl, integrate renewable energy and… Read More »
Research and projects will appear here to address issues associated with vacant land in urban areas and its potential to support urban ecosystem services (e.g., stormwater management, food production, biodiversity conservation);
Research and projects will appear her which address the urban heat island (UHI) and related urban energy use by considering interrelationships of urban and urban-adjacent land uses as well as urban green and blue spaces under climate change scenarios;