A Comprehensive Regional Framework for Sustainability

许多美国城市同时面临着两个相互关联但悲剧性的孤立问题：环境影响和获得负担得起的住房。两者的核心都是健全的土地使用政策。人们住在哪里，建造什么，以及人们保持或制造什么绿色不仅关系到一个社区，而且关系到整个国家。城市对其当地选民有责任提供服务，并为社区的长期繁荣建立可持续发展的途径。如何在城市发展中鼓励负担得起、公平和可持续发展的问题是美国和世界各地城市面临的重大挑战。会议将汇集学者、政策制定者和社区团体，以确定一个研究议程，从权衡和互惠的角度探索综合可持续发展的途径和结果。尽管会议的重点将是波士顿大都市区的地区性，但它也将积极邀请其他城市建立城市之间的学习网络。这次会议将为发展新的科学、数据和方法奠定基础，这些新的科学、数据和方法将在地方到区域到国家的范围内通报城市可持续发展的综合成果。会议的目标是建立一个共同的科学和社区愿景，以调查、试验和发展实现城市可持续性的多种途径，包括旨在缓解和适应环境变化的变革性做法和技术，同时满足对负担得起的住房的需求。作为一次高度互动的工作峰会，这次会议将聚集大约75名学者、社区团体和公职人员，全面审查这些多重目标。核心主题将从简短的主旨演讲和小组讨论中产生。参与者将被组织成具有不同代表的小组，就促进社会经济、人口和基础设施转型的融合可持续路径的发展所需的关键优先知识和资源确定并建立共识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Many U.S. cities are simultaneously confronting two interrelated, but tragically siloed issues: environmental impact and access to affordable housing. Central to both is sound land use policy. Where people live, what people build, and what people keep or make green matters not just to a neighborhood, but to the nation. Cities have a responsibility to their local constituencies to deliver services and establish sustainability pathways for long-term community prosperity. The question of how to encourage affordability, equity, and sustainability in urban development is a grand challenge facing cities across the U.S. and around the world. The conference will bring together a community of scholars, policymakers, and community groups to define a research agenda that explores integrated sustainability pathways and outcomes from a tradeoffs and co-benefits perspective. Though the focus of the conference will be regional in the Boston metropolitan area, it will also actively engage other cities to build city-to-city learning networks. This conference will lay the groundwork for developing the new science, data, and methods needed to inform integrated urban sustainability outcomes across local-to-regional-to-national scales. The objective of the conference is to build a shared scientific and community vision for investigating, experimenting with, and developing multiple pathways towards urban sustainability, including transformative practices and technologies targeted at mitigating and adapting to environmental changes while simultaneously meeting the demands for affordable housing. Organized as a highly interactive working summit, this conference will bring together approximately 75 scholars, community groups, and public officials to examine these multiple objectives holistically. Core themes will emerge from a blend of brief keynote presentations and panel discussions. The participants, organized into groups with diverse representation, will identify and build consensus about the critical priority knowledge and resources needed to promote the development of convergent sustainable pathways for socio-economic, demographic, and infrastructure transitions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.