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Vernon Jordan Jr • Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
institution that mattered. I have often said that if a dog were made the president of Yale, Yale would still get its money. This attitude had to change, and the most reliable way to make sure it changed was to increase the number of black people on company boards and in the higher echelons of corporate enterprises.
Vernon Jordan Jr • Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
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.
Scientific American Editors • Designing the Urban Future: Smart Cities
As it turned out, they didn’t need an emperor to strike the best balance between development and nature: the wisdom of the crowd worked well.
Jonathan F. P. Rose • The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
Zolli promoted various projects that devote resources to helping people weather bad situations rather than to improving those situations.