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Great meeting all you heat folks in person!!!

Check out my new Viewpoint article out in J of the American Planning Assoc: participatory action research reveals roles for social capital and care in heat resilience planning. Also connects to sociotechnical theories of “infrastructure” tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Some of the most beautiful minds (and hearts) in planning theory and practice in this photo. Thanks to The ACSP for bringing our community together, and to Leonie Sandercock for organizing and Julian Agyeman for moderating this roundtable~ #ACSP2023

We are at NSF headquarters for the kickoff event for our $1M CIVIC Innovation award. U.S. National Science Foundation is legitimizing participatory action research through this program. And it will have real impacts on transformative, inclusive, and actionable research.

New paper! Gunjan Barua, Thomas Pingel and Theodore Lim Theo Lim (@chaolim85.bsky.social) explore how different color schemes and augmentation help interpretation of UAV sourced thermal imagery data, doi.org/10.1080/152304…, #gischat

A team of researchers, led by Theo Lim (@chaolim85.bsky.social) , have been awarded a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to work with #Roanoke communities to combat the impact of rising temperatures and promote healing among those impacted by harmful urban planning practices. news.vt.edu/articles/2023/…

An excellent reflection on Science Policy over the decades. Incl explanation of how we find ourselves in current anti-expert anti-elite culture. What role has our “belief in” science as separate from/superior to values & interests played? issues.org/science-policy…

This book has been so key to helping me think through my career and community engagement this year. Reflections by valerie stahl Robert Beauregard show how colleagues in diff career stages relate to the work.

The Southeast is losing more tree canopy to developed land use than any other region since 1985. This is a worrying trend as we sprawl our cities further outward into biodiverse, working land instead of upward. nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/22#fig…

Proud of my MURP @ Virginia Tech students for hosting Roanoke H.O.P.E. High School Students last week here at Virginia Tech. MURPs designed a serious game to help students learn some neighborhood #planning, #facilitation, and #parkdesign considerations.

Continuing our work with strengthening democracy - new collaborative paper on how #GenAI can be a tool to promote civil discourse and usable citizen input to inform policy; with a framework to assess potential opportunities & risks w/ platform integration. mit-genai.pubpub.org/pub/mn45hexw/r…

"Now, more than 25 years later, I am happy to admit that just about everything that first-timer me thought about the conference-going experience was wrong — in some cases, wildly and counterproductively wrong." 1/4 chronicle.com/article/how-to…

The mobilizing power of youth in planning. I made a 5-minute video summarizing our participatory action research project to address adaptation to rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA: youtu.be/WEM5ASM-QXY?si…