The announcement attracted international headlines: a new Chinese city is being built–a “forest city.” The Milan-based design firm hired by the urban planning department of Liuzhou, an inland city of 1 million residents an 11-hour train ride southwest from Shanghai, to develop the project at a…
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“The greatest city in the world.” How often do we hear New York described this way? A lot. I grew up in the Connecticut suburbs in the 1960s and 70s and count myself among the Big Apple’s biggest fans, but having moved west a decade ago,…
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Until the summer of 2016, I spent the first 25 years of my career in the non-profit sector advocating, teaching, lawyering, writing and entrepreneuring for social change as sustainable communities. I built two successful non-profits from scratch, both Boston-based and dedicated to greening low-income neighborhoods and…
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