How Collaboration Is Redefining the Architect’s Role
October 27, 2025
The lone “starchitect” sketching in isolation is becoming a relic. Today, the architect’s role is being reshaped by collaboration, across... The Just Communities Blog
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Building Just Communities: A Year of Power and Progress
September 30, 2025
In neighborhoods across Atlanta, community gardens are thriving, once-polluted creeks are being restored, and legacy residents are holding their ground... 
How Two Landscape Architects Are Using the AP Credential to Reshape the Field
August 27, 2025
Catawba Trail Farm, once a plantation, is now a thriving space for community healing, led by a Black women-run nonprofit.... 
From Theory to Practice: The Just Communities Protocol
July 18, 2025
Insight from a Practitioner Through my career I have worked with excellent interdisciplinary design and client teams to generate...
Why Regenerative Architecture Is the Future of Sustainable Design
June 25, 2025
For decades, the fields of architecture and urban planning have centered on sustainable desig: reducing carbon footprints, conserving resources, and... 
Social Corners: Proposing Phased Strategies for an Urban EcoDistrict
October 15, 2020
In collaboration with Rebecca Lefkowitz My first experience with EcoDistricts was through my first studio project (while studying urban design... 
Just Green: Liz Ogbu and Kofi Boone Issue a Clarion Call for Framing a New Era in Community Building at the EcoDistricts Summit
December 9, 2019
Frank talk. Liz Ogbu of Studio O in Oakland and Kofi Boone, professor of landscape architecture at North Carolina State... 
From the Neighborhood Up! Why Placemaking is the Key to Building Resilient Cities
December 14, 2015
By: Marissa Mastors, EcoDistricts They’ve become emblems of Portland’s quirky, yet tried and true motto, Keep Portland Weird: brightly-colored, painted... 
On the Spot: Rob Bennett Guest Editor of GB&D Magazine
September 16, 2014
GB&D Magazine The creator of the EcoDistricts concept and this issue’s guest editor on the world’s most vibrant neighborhoods, simplicity,...
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