#ForewordFriday: What Makes a Great City Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On September 9th, 2016
In his latest book, esteemed architect and city planner Alexander Garvin explores the question What Makes a Great City. As Garvin visited great cities to answer this question, he found that a city’s greatness has little to do with beauty or function, but rather depends on its relationship with the people who inhabit it. It is about what citizens can do to make a city great.
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The Legacy of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

By Ray Tomalty / On May 17th, 2016
This month, the Olympic torch relay began in Brasília. After leaving the capital, the torch will visit more than 300 Brazilian cities and as it winds its way to Rio de Janeiro, gradually shift the nation’s attention from its political and economic troubles onto its Olympic hopes.

Q&A with Grady Gammage

By Grady Gammage / On April 5th, 2016
How can other suburban cities extract lessons from Phoenix’s successes to work towards their own sustainable future?
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Parks or People? Five Cities that are Choosing Both

By Gaelle Gourmelon / On March 2nd, 2016
The world’s expanding cities are in a delicate balancing act. If they do not embrace strategic, high-density development, urban areas will increasingly encroach on surrounding farmland and natural spaces.

Green Infrastructure in Action: Urban Forests

By Karen Firehock / On November 8th, 2015
Over the past 75 years, American engineers have become very adept at managing water – collecting it, holding it and moving it away as fast as possible. Yet there is a better way to manage our water that costs far less.Rather than trying to push  away water, we are finding ways to adaptively manage our water using natural features and functions. If we start to think of our urban forests as ‘green infrastructure’ then we can include them as solutions to urban stormwater runoff and flooding. American Forests has estimated the value of forests for flood mitigation and air qu

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