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The Biodiverse City
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Cities have long been typified as barren wastelands — concrete jungles inhospitable to plant and animal life. However, the exact opposite may often be true: cities across the globe can be hosts to significant biological diversity.[read more]
Smaller Cities: Setting the Pace for the Next Wave of Innovation and Growth
It’s said that technology is “making the world smaller,” and while that may be true, the world’s cities are growing at an astonishing rate.By the year 2050, nearly 75% of the world’s population will reside in urban areas, and trends show that staggering population growth will impact cities on a global scale. The most significant of this...[read more]
Shifting Real Estate Development Priorities
Last week I had a chance to chat with Russell Flannery, the Shanghai bureau chief for Forbes magazine, at a conference I spoke at in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan Province. I talked to him about the shift in real estate development focus in China from residential to the retail and commercial sectors. Below is a reproduction of the interview from...[read more]
7 billion and counting: how will infrastructure handle it?
I have to give a shout out to Joe.My.God for sharing this video. It really got me thinking… There are a lot of statistics in this video, and some made me ponder more heavily than others. The one that startled me the most was the increase of population in the last decade and the projections for mid century. We added a...[read more]
Kunstler is not really the face of smart growth
Kunstler and O'Toole meet for the first time. Source: Brown PTP I just watched a debate held last week at Brown University between James Howard Kunstler and Randal O'Toole entitled "Building America: who should control urban...[read more]
Sustainable Cities Collective
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