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the real battle to make an existing city such as New York more sustainable may be won in the minds of superintendents managing the metropolis’s roughly one million buildings.

Cities like these can also allow the building of clean energy projects on city land.

In the short term, planning for abundant energy and limited matter might mean conservation and adaptive reuse of existing infrastructure, as well as putting energy and resources into recovering materials or otherwise diverting them from the waste stream. In the medium term, that means continuing research into ways to recover or recycle materials. B

It demonstrates the extent to which all new development could be accommodated on the footprint of existing parking lots.

unlocking energy and ideas that started to bubble up from everywhere as power was pushed out to the local level, where the relationships between people and place actually happened.

I discovered that there were people the world over asking questions, large and small, about how things could be otherwise in schools, in neighbourhoods, in our relationship to nature, in our approach to health care, in how we spend our time and attention, even using it as the basis for reimagining the economic and democratic realities of their citi

Forests store and regulate water. Wetlands prevent floods and provide water for farmers and cities. Coral reefs are