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Economic Architecture Reflections: Innovation in Regional Resilience [Episode 55]

In this week’s Economic Architecture Reflections episode, host Stuart Yasgur revisits four remarkable resilience projects from innovators who show that building resilience is not only shaped by markets, but capable of reshaping them — when we ask questions big enough to match the problem. He reflects on the work of Kevin Shafer of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, who saw an opportunity for upstream resilience planning; Bill Fazioli, whose Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank expands access to low-cost resilience financing; Kyle Spencer, Chief Resilience Officer of Norfolk, Virginia, whose city has…

In this week’s Economic Architecture Reflections episode, host Stuart Yasgur revisits four remarkable resilience projects from innovators who show that building resilience is not only shaped by markets, but capable of reshaping them — when we ask questions big enough to match the problem.

He reflects on the work of Kevin Shafer of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, who saw an opportunity for upstream resilience planning; Bill Fazioli, whose Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank expands access to low-cost resilience financing; Kyle Spencer, Chief Resilience Officer of Norfolk, Virginia, whose city has become a laboratory for innovation; and Shalini Vajjhala of PRE Collective, whose macro-level approach to resilience is changing the questions we ask in order to reach more innovative solutions.

Learn more about the work of Kevin Shafer, Bill Fazioli, Kyle Spencer, and Shalini Vajjhala in previous episodes of the Economic Architecture podcast.

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Host: Stuart Yasgur

Executive Producer: Becca Rashid

Senior Producer & Research Lead: Jennifer Vogt

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