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6 Sep 2024
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=_piM…
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1 Apr 2024
"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
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29 Mar 2024
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/mn4…
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26 Mar 2024
What can the development of a serious game for urban park design teach us about community planning? A lot! Understanding diverse park user preferences, facilitation skills, conflict resolution, spatial synergies and tradeoffs in design, empathy, and care.
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26 Mar 2024
This is one activity in our H.O.P.E. for Heat Resilience project, funded by the @NSFCIVIC program. @VTSPIA students are mentoring younger students from @City_of_Roanoke to gain skills in urban planning, while themselves learning how to work in community. heat2hope.org
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3 Mar 2024
Proud of my @VTMURP 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.
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17 Dec 2023
These letters are going out to eight high school students in Roanoke. Over the next 10 months, they, with the support of @VTSPIA MURP students, will be creating plans to build community capacity to deal with the effects of rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA. @VT_LiberalArts
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17 Dec 2023
We are extremely excited for the next few months, and grateful for the opportunity, from the @NSF @NSFCIVIC program. #workforcedevelopment #urbanplanning #diversityandinclusion
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3 Dec 2023
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/cha…
3 Dec 2023
'Cut down at an alarming rate': Tampa's urban tree canopy decreases by more than 12%.
"Advocates with the Tampa Tree Advocacy Group say due to development, Tampa is seeing a critical decline in the urban tree canopy."
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20 Nov 2023
This book has been so key to helping me think through my career and community engagement this year. Reflections by @valeriestahl Robert Beauregard show how colleagues in diff career stages relate to the work.
"In her new book Mapping Possibility, Leonie Sandercock arranges some of her most significant writings along the trajectory of her professional and emotional life."
@valerieestahl and Robert Beauregard review: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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10 Nov 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-sp…
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Theo Lim (@chaolim85.bsky.social) retweeted
7 Nov 2023
A team of researchers, led by @CHAOLIM85 , have been awarded a @NSF grant to work with #Roanoke communities to combat the impact of rising temperatures and promote healing among those impacted by harmful urban planning practices.
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6 Nov 2023
New paper! Gunjan Barua, Thomas Pingel and Theodore Lim @CHAOLIM85 explore how different color schemes and augmentation help interpretation of UAV sourced thermal imagery data, doi.org/10.1080/15230406.202…, #gischat
ALT A series of thermal images, shown with different color schemes.
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27 Oct 2023
New publication out! What colormaps should we use to represent spatial temperature data? User spatial task performance and reported preference show that Ironbow is well-liked and performed well. But, user performance and preference do not always align. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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27 Oct 2023
@jer_science this is the pub I mentioned before in this thread. The users performed well using the red-blue colormap, but really didn't "like" it in our study... x.com/jer_science/status/166…
16 Jun 2023
In a clear majority, people preferred the blue->red color ramp which I agree is more intuitively related to temperature. This will help us train people to use @flir thermal cameras to document green infrastructure solutions that target high surface temperatures in cities. Thanks!
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26 Oct 2023
We are at NSF headquarters for the kickoff event for our $1M CIVIC Innovation award. @NSF is legitimizing participatory action research through this program. And it will have real impacts on transformative, inclusive, and actionable research.
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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 @julianagyeman for moderating this roundtable~ #ACSP2023
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23 Oct 2023
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.…
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21 Oct 2023
Great meeting all you heat folks in person!!!
20 Oct 2023
Thank you to @LaddKeith @CJGabbe @CHAOLIM85 @GIS_jiang and the audience for a great discussion on heat governance, adaptation, and equity at #ACSP2023!
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