Joseph Schilling (Author)
is a senior policy and research associate in the Research to Action
Lab and Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the
Urban Institute. State and local governments serve as the primary
platforms for his applied research, policy translation, and
technical assistance work that helps cross-sector leaders adapt and
transfer innovative policies and practices. Before coming to Urban,
Schilling worked as a municipal attorney, a California legislative
fellow, the director of community and economic development for the
International City/County Management Association (ICMA), and a
research professor of urban planning for Virginia Tech. Schilling’s
sustainability expertise includes research on HUD’s Sustainable
Communities Initiative and authoring a seminal American Planning
Association article, “Greening the Rust Belt.” While at Virginia
Tech, he also led the initial design and development of Alexandria,
Virginia’s Eco City Charter and Initiative. In 2010, Schilling
founded the Vacant Property Research Network, a hub for policy and
research translation related to regenerating legacy cities.
Catherine Tumber (Author)
is the author of Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s
Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (MIT Press, 2012).
She is a Penn Institute for Urban Research scholar and a Gateway
Cities Innovation Institute fellow with the Massachusetts Institute
for a New Commonwealth. She holds a PhD and an MA in US history
from the University of Rochester and a BA in social thought and
political economy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Gabi Velasco (Author)
is a policy analyst in the Research to Action Lab at the Urban
Institute, where their work focuses on environmental justice and
housing justice. Previously, they worked with the sustainability
program at the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, where they
managed solar photovoltaic installations at Texas State Parks and
conducted research on equitable greenspace access and sustainable
architecture. Velasco received a BA in sustainability studies, a BA
in urban political ecology, with a minor in women’s and gender
studies from the University of Texas at Austin. While there, they
also conducted community-engaged research, later published in the
journal GeoHumanities, on environmental racism, zoning, and
children’s health in East Austin.
This is crucial work. These small cities are often the hubs of
large regions, and they can’t be allowed to just molder away.
Instead, they have a bright—and bright green—future, if we can come
tougher to help them make the transition!
*Bill McKibben, Author of End of Nature*
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