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A Decade of Building Community in San Francisco’s Chinatown
October 6, 2021
In 2017-2018, I hit two milestones in my life. The first was my 10-year anniversary of doing place-based, community-based planning...
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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...
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Community Driven Sustainability in the Rust Belt
February 13, 2020
Pittsburgh and Cleveland projects get big boost with EcoDistricts Incubator It’s Day 1, the first morning of the EcoDistricts...
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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...
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EcoDistricts Certified Welcomes Four New Neighborhoods to Growing Cohort
April 30, 2019
Two years ago, we launched EcoDistricts Certified, the world’s only verification platform that helps neighborhood teams embed equity, resilience and...
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EcoDistricts AP Spotlight: Walter Fieuw
December 13, 2018
Walter Fieuw, is the Founder & Principal Consultant at Making of Cities, a niche urban and regional development consultancy pushing...
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Discover Atlanta's Breakthrough Neighborhoods
August 29, 2017
The annual EcoDistricts Summit is an opportunity to explore our host city’s culture and place. This October, the Summit is coming...
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Oregon to South Africa: Incubator 2017
July 11, 2017
On a sunny afternoon in April, Luyanda Mphalwa gazed down on Portland, Oregon from the shiny silver aerial tram that...
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High Expectations for Rochester's First Ecodistrict
January 27, 2016
The City of Rochester, New York can lay claim to many accolades. It was one of America’s first boomtown, is...
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