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Reclaiming Resilience: How Small Shifts in City Hall Can Empower Communities
October 13, 2025
Across the country, communities of color are pioneering resilience in real time—transforming vacant lots into food forests, converting churches into...
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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...
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The ROI of Community-First Development for City Planners
September 12, 2025
City leaders are under pressure to do more with less. Community‑first development, where residents help shape priorities and share in...
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Regenerative Design and Urban Development
September 10, 2025
Urban development is at a crossroads. As cities grapple with the compounding challenges of climate change, social inequity, and economic...
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How to Future-Proof Your City Without Gentrification
September 3, 2025
Cities across the country are grappling with a key challenge: how to plan for a thriving future without displacing the...
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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...
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Culture Is Infrastructure. So Is Justice.
June 12, 2025
There’s a specific kind of grief that comes with watching your community change around you. Not the kind that comes...
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The Time for Action: Five Keys to Integrate EcoDistricts into Cities
February 23, 2021
We all have a right to know what is in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and...
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