Read these trees.

How old are the trees with burn scars?
Why do the smaller trees not have burn scars?
What does this story written on the landscape mean for the coming years?

March brings us into Women's History Month- and a chance to celebrate the many contributions of women to their hometowns.

You might like "the Patriarchs" -a super well written historical account of the making and remaking and safeguarding patriarchy

About to go bad

This rapid uptick in #homelessness has been a federal policy choice... which is why so many local organizations are innovating approaches.

We review these attempts at #poverty alleviation with a survey of 105 #guaranteedincome programs in the US: doi.org/10.1515/bis-...

Nearly every California jurisdiction considers the risk of "wildfire" in their land-use plans.

PlanSearch.caes.ucdavis.edu

Really loved "Our Moon" - a sweeping history of geological formations, evolution of life, and the history of science.

For all the urban plans oriented along cardinal directions, this book explains humanity's repeat cultural homage to our place within the cosmos.

Thank you, @rboyle31.bsky.social

9/9 Zipf’s Wikipedia entry used to share more of this aspect of his work and influence... but has recently been pared down to a very short obituary.

1/9: I teach in the Department of Human Ecology- and this is our introductory textbook, written in 1949 by George Zipf. The scholar would die the next year at the age of 48. I often think of what might have happened to the field had he lived.

More than half of California cities are addressing environmental justice--- an awesome boost--- thanks to pathbreaking work from early adopter communities and technical planning assistance from nonprofit groups like #CEJA

Awesome student team at PlanSearch has finished uploading all the updated + adopted city and county comprehensive plans for California.

That's 1,709 PDFs covering 138M words. These are essentially advertisements of what communities want: density, greenbelts, preservation...

This break I read 3 great books that are melding into a delicious mind stew.

Come learn about the National Zoning Atlas project and PlanSearch - two planning efforts to make planning easier to understand and improve upon - plus lots of additional cool GIS applications/tools. #free