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Rewiring Urban Planning in Cape Town

Can Partnership Between Neighborhood Civic Organizations and the City of Cape Town Help Reverse Decades of Spatial Apartheid? On November 13, a small group of wary civic leaders gathered with EcoDistricts Studio faculty in a gritty, vibrant, and increasingly gentrified...Read More

Developing Strong Mixed-Income Communities in Atlanta’s East Lake

September 14, 2017

By Sona Pai

Reinventing redevelopment: Giving residents a reason to stay in Atlanta’s East Lake The transformation of Atlanta’s East Lake neighborhood made national headlines for its groundbreaking approach to redevelopment. Once the site of a dilapidated 650-unit public housing complex, a crime...Read More

Small Town, Big Impact: Resident-Driven Change in Millvale, PA

November 12, 2016

By Katy Ricchiuto

Every year, we kick off the EcoDistricts Incubator application cycle with stories highlighting the progress of past Incubator teams. As we move into the 2017 application period, we’re spotlighting the tremendous work of the small (but mighty) town of Millvale,...Read More

Expanding the Equity Toolbox: Bottom Up Community Activation

June 23, 2016

By Katy Ricchiuto

This September 13-15, the EcoDistricts Summit comes to Denver, CO, and Summit attendees will spend two and a half days digging deep into how to build the sustainable, vibrant cities of tomorrow. Day two of the EcoDistricts Summit will feature...Read More

From the Neighborhood Up! Why Placemaking is the Key to Building Resilient Cities

December 14, 2015

By Katy Ricchiuto

A City Repair Project in Portland, OR. Photo Credit: City Repair Project By: Marissa Mastors, EcoDistricts They’ve become emblems of Portland’s quirky, yet tried and true motto, Keep Portland Weird: brightly-colored, painted murals in the middle of intersections; cob benches...Read More

The Neighborhood Is at the Heart of Our Work

November 24, 2015

By Katy Ricchiuto

By: Rob Bennett, CEO, EcoDistricts At EcoDistricts, we feel strongly that it is time to advance a new model of urban regeneration that puts sustainability square in the middle of it. While the urban regeneration movement is punctuated by...Read More

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Rewiring Urban Planning in Cape Town

February 1, 2018

By Rob Bennett

Developing Strong Mixed-Income Communities in Atlanta’s East Lake

September 14, 2017

By Sona Pai

Small Town, Big Impact: Resident-Driven Change in Millvale, PA

November 12, 2016

By Katy Ricchiuto

Expanding the Equity Toolbox: Bottom Up Community Activation

June 23, 2016

By Katy Ricchiuto

From the Neighborhood Up! Why Placemaking is the Key to Building Resilient Cities

December 14, 2015

By Katy Ricchiuto

The Neighborhood Is at the Heart of Our Work

November 24, 2015

By Katy Ricchiuto