Economic Architecture The Podcast
How long-term vision builds more resilient communities [Episode 32]
In this week’s episode, Kevin Shafer shares his response after a once in a thousand-year storm struck the city of Milwaukee in August of 2025—making him realize the city needed an innovative, immediate response to water-related damages. Kevin Shafer and his team at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) have created a new structural model to address both our climate resilience needs and to set the infrastructural parameters necessary to ensure future property owners are protected from flooding. Host Stuart Yasgur and Kevin Shafer discuss the community-driven approach to infrastructure…
In this week’s episode, Kevin Shafer shares his response after a once in a thousand-year storm struck the city of Milwaukee in August of 2025—making him realize the city needed an innovative, immediate response to water-related damages. Kevin Shafer and his team at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) have created a new structural model to address both our climate resilience needs and to set the infrastructural parameters necessary to ensure future property owners are protected from flooding.
Host Stuart Yasgur and Kevin Shafer discuss the community-driven approach to infrastructure building in Milwaukee, the necessity of expediting development projects, and why improving resilience in our cities is the priority for the future, and today.
Learn more about Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District: https://uswateralliance.org/team/kevin-shafer/
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