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What is EcoDistricts Thinking? A Lay Person’s Guide

Every year, on December 26, my wife’s side of the family gets together to celebrate Christmas. Like most families, ours has created its own set of traditions and expectations around the holidays. In our case, one of those annual traditions...Read More

Networks ≠ Organizations: Let’s all lean into the difference!

November 10, 2020

By Lydia Morin

I spent nearly my whole first year as Executive Director of CONNECT (Congress of Neighboring Communities) in the Greater Pittsburgh Region trying to understand it as the nonprofit organization it was portrayed as by its founders and current leadership of...Read More

Social Corners: Proposing Phased Strategies for an Urban EcoDistrict

October 15, 2020

By Sai Prateek Narayan Ramachandran

In collaboration with Rebecca Lefkowitz My first experience with EcoDistricts was through my first studio project (while studying urban design at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture) where we were introduced to the Millvale EcoDistrict, situated just outside the city...Read More

A Practical and Actionable Pathway to Address Digital Inequities Today

September 9, 2020

By Melanie Nutter

The unprecedented COVID-19 crisis has fundamentally changed how the world works, learns and interacts. With shelter-in-place and social distancing requirements, people have transitioned their jobs, education, and entertainment indoors. This transition has not occurred without significant challenges. Compounded by the...Read More

Building Beloved Community: An EcoDistricts AP Considers Her Work

September 3, 2020

By Tracy Nordstrom

Home A large bur oak graces my front yard: with a double trunk, about 35 feet tall, she casts a shady and cooling radius all around. My tree is 115 years old, as old as my house. Her inner rings...Read More

Rewiring Urban Planning in Cape Town

February 1, 2018

By Rob Bennett

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

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Category: Community

What is EcoDistricts Thinking? A Lay Person’s Guide

November 10, 2020

By Daniel Rossi-Keen

Networks ≠ Organizations: Let’s all lean into the difference!

November 10, 2020

By Lydia Morin

Social Corners: Proposing Phased Strategies for an Urban EcoDistrict

October 15, 2020

By Sai Prateek Narayan Ramachandran

A Practical and Actionable Pathway to Address Digital Inequities Today

September 9, 2020

By Melanie Nutter

Building Beloved Community: An EcoDistricts AP Considers Her Work

September 3, 2020

By Tracy Nordstrom

Rewiring Urban Planning in Cape Town

February 1, 2018

By Rob Bennett