Timon McPhearson

Narrowing urban heat disparities alongside faster greening in low-income neighborhoods across cities in the United States

Urban heat disproportionately burdens socioeconomically vulnerable communities, yet how these disparities change over time remains poorly understood. Here we show that heat disparities between low- and high-income neighborhoods generally narrowed across 55 major cities in the Uni...

Expanding frameworks: Integrating vulnerability, exposure, and critical infrastructure to assess pluvial flood risks in New York City

Extreme precipitation events are increasing their frequency and intensity across the United States, posing growing risks to urban communities through pluvial flooding. Effective adaptation against pluvial flooding through structural and nonstructural measures requires understandi...