Jeff Carney

Associate Professor | Director University of Florida

Gainesville FL

Jeff Carney is a registered architect and certified city planner working at the interface of housing, neighborhoods and ecosystems.

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Biography

Jeff Caney is an associate professor in the School of Architecture, director of the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) and director of the Florida Resilient Cities program (FRC). Jeff’s work in Florida is focused on the resilience of communities achieved through transdisciplinary and community-engaged design processes. His current projects include a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funded effort to design post-disaster modular housing, and FDEP funded projects in Cedar Key and Port St. Joe to assist these rural communities in recovering from recent hurricanes.

Areas of Expertise

Hurricanes

Housing Design

Hazard Mitigation Planning

Community Resilience

Scenario Planning

Articles

Integrating urban digital twins with cloud-based geospatial dashboards for coastal resilience planning: A case study in Florida

Journal of Planning Education

Chen, et al.

2024-03-27

Coastal communities are confronted with a growing incidence of climate-induced flooding, necessitating adaptation measures for resilience. In this paper, we introduce a framework that integrates an urban digital twin with a geospatial dashboard to allow visualization of the vulnerabilities within critical infrastructure across a range of spatial and temporal scales. The synergy between these two technologies fosters heightened community awareness about increased flood risks to establish a unified understanding, the foundation for collective decision-making in adaptation plans. The paper also elucidates ethical considerations while developing the platform, including ensuring accessibility, promoting transparency and equity, and safeguarding individual privacy.

Advanced Modular Housing Design: Developing the CORE+

Housing Technology Projects

Carney, et al.

2023-01-01

The U.S. housing industry faces three primary challenges that this project addresses—rapid deployment of housing after a disaster, energy efficiency and performance, and affordability of housing. This article will demonstrate the results of a multidisciplinary research project funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that developed an advanced modular housing design called CORE+, which provides new housing opportunities for communities facing increased risk from environmental hazards.

Delta Urbanism: Aligning Adaptation with the Protection and Restoration Paradigm in Coastal Louisiana

Technology | Architecture + Design

Birch and Carney

2019-03-26

Increasing resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change through hazard mitigation and social capacity building is critical for Louisiana’s coastal and inland communities. Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast calls for planning and adaptive design at the architectural, neighborhood, and community scales. This work examines whether the Master Plan provides an effective framework for addressing community resilience and examines how innovative community planning and design frameworks such as the National Disaster Resilience Competition and Inland from the Coast are being employed to fill resilience gaps.