We need to understand that nature exists everywhere, including in urban environments, and to understand how natural processes work.
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How can other suburban cities extract lessons from Phoenix’s successes to work towards their own sustainable future?
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.
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...
Zoning is often viewed as a friend of conservation. But could some zoning actually be detrimental to conservation goals?
Is the grand public-space experiment in New York City's Times Square at risk? Perhaps, according to this recent piece on...
It’s hard to get a feel for San Francisco in only three days. Like most big cities, there’s more to it than what you see on postcards and TV shows. Yes, the Golden Gate Bridge is beautiful (as is the Bay Bridge), and Lombard Street is charming and quirky...
In 2006, six months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, I toured the city’s decaying wreckage with a delegation of national environmental leaders.