Urban Development

Community resilience hub with residents using parks, public facilities, community services, food distribution, cooling, and information resources.
Local Parks, Libraries, and Schools as Resilience Hubs: The Next Generation of Community Infrastructure 1024 576 D'Andre Lampkin

Local Parks, Libraries, and Schools as Resilience Hubs: The Next Generation of Community Infrastructure

When communities think about infrastructure, they typically think about roads, bridges, utilities, hospitals, fire stations, communications systems, and other physical assets that keep society functioning. Emergency managers similarly focus on…

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Fire engine traveling through a dense residential neighborhood with ADUs, parked vehicles, utility infrastructure, and limited street space, illustrating the relationship between housing density, emergency access, and community resilience.
When Housing Policy Meets Emergency Access: The Hidden Public Safety Dimension of Density 1024 725 D'Andre Lampkin

When Housing Policy Meets Emergency Access: The Hidden Public Safety Dimension of Density

Housing policy is often discussed in terms of units: how many homes a community needs, how quickly they can be approved, how much they cost, and where additional density should…

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Historic neighborhood architecture alongside thoughtfully integrated modern development, illustrating historic preservation, community resilience, and responsible urban growth.
Historic Preservation and Community Resilience: Protecting Memory While Planning for Growth 1024 576 D'Andre Lampkin

Historic Preservation and Community Resilience: Protecting Memory While Planning for Growth

Historic Preservation and Community Resilience: Protecting Memory While Planning for Growth Cities are never static. They grow, redevelop, absorb new populations, respond to economic pressures, and adapt their physical environments…

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Planning professionals and emergency responders collaborate on land-use planning near industrial facilities, residential neighborhoods, and critical infrastructure to support economic growth, environmental stewardship, and community resilience.
Industrial Land Use and Community Resilience: Planning for Economic Growth While Reducing Disaster Risk 1024 683 D'Andre Lampkin

Industrial Land Use and Community Resilience: Planning for Economic Growth While Reducing Disaster Risk

Introduction Industrial land uses have played a fundamental role in the growth of American communities for generations. Manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, logistics hubs, warehouses, public utilities, and industrial service providers…

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Community members receive water, shade, and wellness checks in a public park being used as a resilience hub during a crisis.
Parks as Resilience Infrastructure: Why Public Spaces Matter During Crisis 1024 576 D'Andre Lampkin

Parks as Resilience Infrastructure: Why Public Spaces Matter During Crisis

When communities think about disaster infrastructure, they often imagine fire stations, hospitals, emergency operations centers, bridges, power grids, evacuation routes, and communication systems. Those assets are essential. Yet one of…

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Emergency response and community stabilization efforts following the Boyle Heights warehouse fire
From Structure Fire to Community Stabilization: Applying the National Response Framework to the Boyle Heights Warehouse Fire 1024 682 Stories That Build

From Structure Fire to Community Stabilization: Applying the National Response Framework to the Boyle Heights Warehouse Fire

How a whole-community approach helped address sheltering, transportation, safety, family support, and local recovery needs The structure fire at the Lineage Logistics cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights offers a powerful…

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Urban cityscape showing buildings, roads, and infrastructure connected to responsible urban development
Building Resilient Communities Through Responsible Urban Development 600 450 Stories That Build

Building Resilient Communities Through Responsible Urban Development

How planning, housing, infrastructure, and neighborhood capacity shape the future of community resilience Urban development is often discussed in terms of buildings, zoning, housing units, roads, density, and land use.…

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An LAPD helicopter flies above a concrete channel of the Los Angeles River as officers respond to a vehicle pursuit involving a suspect who fled into storm drains beneath the 6th Street Bridge.
The Growing Threat of Trail-Based Vehicle Evasion & Targeted Facility Thefts 686 386 D'Andre Lampkin

The Growing Threat of Trail-Based Vehicle Evasion & Targeted Facility Thefts

As vehicle pursuits increasingly spill into Los Angeles County’s park trails, riverbeds, and storm drain systems, law enforcement agencies face mounting challenges in both suspect apprehension and public safety preservation.…

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Ontario neighborhood housing with ADU development
Planning for Affordability: Local Zoning Innovations to Address Housing Shortages 952 634 D'Andre Lampkin

Planning for Affordability: Local Zoning Innovations to Address Housing Shortages

California’s housing crisis isn’t confined to its coastal cities; it is reshaping communities like Ontario and the Inland Empire every day. Families are struggling with rising rents, limited housing options,…

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Texas vs California Redistricting – Voter Reforms and Political Power
When Voter-Approved Reforms Meet Political Power Plays: Texas vs. California Redistricting 1024 683 D'Andre Lampkin

When Voter-Approved Reforms Meet Political Power Plays: Texas vs. California Redistricting

Imagine voting to take politics out of redistricting… only for your governor to suggest putting it right back in. That’s the political moment California now faces, while Texas deals with…

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