Cities & Buildings
Where we live and where we work are critical to who we are. How we power, organize, and move within these spaces is a key part of our energy story.
Recent Work
Breaking the Lock on Urban Climate Finance: A Proposal for a Green Cities Guarantee Fund to Support Climate Resilient Infrastructure in Cities
Many have claimed that the battle for climate change will be won in cities; yet the slow rate and pace of funding for needed projects has hindered progress, necessitating a call for solutions to attract more money for these ends. The SDSN Global Commission on Urban SDG Finance working with CAF, the Latin American Development Bank is proposing the development of a Green Cities Guarantee Fund as one such solution.
Heat Stress and Urban Resilience: Alternative Cooling Strategies to Combat Extreme Heat in the Urban Environment
As heat intensifies in cities, this digest argues that solar-powered open-air cooling shelters can play a critical role in a layered urban cooling strategy—providing resilient, low-energy relief that complements cooling centers and remains operational during power outages.
Energy Efficiency
Evaluating K-12 Public School District Sustainability Plans for Justice and Equity
Sustainability and climate plans for public K-12 school districts have the potential to address infrastructural gaps that produce outdated, unhealthy, and unsafe school facilities. This project takes a deeper look at several plans across the nation.
The Economics of Building Electrification
The percentage of U.S. homes heated with electricity has increased steadily from 1% in 1950 to 40% in 2020. New research explores the implications of this increase for a growing number of policies aimed at electrifying buildings.
Featured Researcher
Nicholas Pevzner
Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape ArchitectureNicholas Pevzner is a faculty fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
People
- Dorit Aviv
- Eugenie Birch
- Matthijs Bouw =
- William Braham
- Stephanie Carlisle
- Dennis P. Culhane
- Tom Daniels
- Akira Drake Rodriguez
- Lance Freeman
- Erick Guerra
- Mark Alan Hughes
- Zhongjie Lin
- Chenyi Ma
- Laia Mogas-Soldevila
- Ellen Neises
- Nicholas Pevzner
- Vincent Reina
- Franca Trubiano
- Domenic Vitiello
- Shu Yang