Podcast of show aired 4/17/20

On this podcast of the Planet Philadelphia radio show aired 4/17/20 on 92.9 FM WGGT-LP and gtownradio.com, 
https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/aired-41720-how-does-infrastructure-shape-equity-and-well-being-across-the-urban-rural-gradient/

Temple University’s Center for Sustainable Communities hosted a workshop ‘How does Infrastructure Shape Equity and Well-being Across the Urban-Rural Gradient’September 11th to September 13th, 2019. The workshop was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 1929834 and Temple University in partnership with Drexel University, Hunter College, CUNY, Indiana University-Bloomington, Oak Ridge National Labs, The Franklin Institute, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, the Sustainable Business Network, and Planet Philadelphia.

The workshop was about the impact of infrastructure on equity and well-being across the urban-rural gradient and used Philadelphia metropolitan region as a case study. One of the goals was to integrate different sets of knowledge and skills from diverse perspectives. Workshop attendees included researchers from the social, engineering, health, data, and environmental sciences, and practitioners, industry leaders, government agencies, educators, and community organizers. Key issues discussed were:

• How to create and evaluate models for knowledge co-production
• How to meaningfully prioritize equity and wellbeing in sustainability research and planning
• How to bring analysis of health into infrastructure research
• Possible re-conceptualizations of the urban-rural gradient
• The need for comparative research on infrastructure systems

 
This podcast is a compilation of interviewsconducted throughout the workshop by Kay Wood, the producer and host of the environmental radio show Planet Philadelphia, Linda Rosenwein, Planet Philadelphia assistant producer, and Geography and Urban Studiesgraduate students: Rebecca Croog, Stephen Dickinson, Sarah Heck, Shrobona Karkun, Dirk Kinsey, Matthew Marcus, Naida Elena Montes, Jeronimo Rodriguez, Alisa Shockley, and Melissa Tolosa. 
 
In no particular order, the people in this podcast are:

• Melissa R. Gilbert, Workshop Chairperson,Director, Center for Sustainable Communities, Temple University
• Kay Wood, Producer and Host of Planet Philadelphia
• Leslie S. Richards, Secretary of Transportation, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
• Jerome Shabazz, Executive Director, Overbrook Environmental Education Center
• Rachel Valletta, Environmental Scientist, Franklin Institute, Director of theClimate and Urban Systems Partnership (CUSP)
• Hallie Eakin, Professor and Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University
• Eduardo Brondízio, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director, Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes (CASEL), Indiana University Bloomington
• Brett Fusco, Manager, Office of Long-Range Planning, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
• Victor Gutierrez, Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
• Simi Hoque, Associate Professor of Engineering, Drexel University
• Hamil Pearsall, Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
• Bill Solecki, Professor of Geography at Hunter College and Founder Director, Emeritus,CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities
• Joe Pierce, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability and Division of Regional and City Planning, University of Oklahoma
• Allison Hayes-Conroy, Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies Department, Temple University.
• Wilson Lara, postdoctoral research fellow in the Geography and Urban Studies Department, Temple University.
• Lara Roman,Research Ecologist, Philadelphia Field Station – Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service 
• Brett Fusco, Manager, Office of Long-range Planning, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission 
• Dirk Kinsey, Geography and Urban Studies(GUS) graduate student, Temple University 

 
 
The Community Report on the workshop can be downloaded from https://www.cla.temple.edu/center-for-sustainable-communities/.
 
It is also posted on the following websites:
Center for Sustainable Communities, Temple University
Institute for Sustainable Cites, City University of New York
Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes (CASEL), Indiana University Bloomington
The Consortium for Climate Risks in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN), Drexel University

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