Ecocity Builders

Through his pioneering work as an ‘urbanist,’ Hood has integrated architectural features such as playgrounds, plazas and squares into city sites whose pasts are vibrant but forgotten. By reflecting ...

Mr Hall is the visionary behind NewVista, a large scale metropolitan concept with the potential to have world-wide economic and social viability and to be massively scalable and ecologically sustainable. ...

Could the new Dutch mileage tax ever gain traction in the U.S.?

Mr Grant has worked as a strategic adviser to leaders worldwide helping them to achieve meaningful, sustainable results in the face of the world’s most difficult challenges. He is a Board Member ...

Governor Glendening is President of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, and two term past Governor of Maryland, United States of America, 1995 to 2003. As governor, one of his primary agenda items was ...

Paul Downton, Ecopolis Architects, Adelaide, Australia – Convener, the Second International Ecocity Conference in Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

The potential of transforming cities into more sustainable habitats has got Richard Register, visionary founder of Ecocity Builders, out of bed each morning for almost forty years. Together with his partner, ...

Mr Wulf Daseking has been the director of city planning in Freiburg, Germany, since 1984. For six years before that, he held a similar role at Mullheim/Ruhr. At Freiburg, Wulf is responsible for urban development, land development, landscape planning, master plan development and individual projects....

Today we’re excited to announce the addition of Engin Ayaz and Jake Levitas from Arup to our line-up of speakers. Engin and Jake enjoy exploring synergies across various technical focus areas and developing integrated design scenarios with strong visual outputs.

The Biopolitics International Organization (B.I.O.) is an non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Athens, Greece. Over the course of its history, B.I.O. has been promoting a shift from an anthropocentric ...

The concept of a high-density ecocity that caters to people and not cars actually necessitates large-scale renewable energy “power plants” such as large solar and wind farms. These would require power ...

Planners and transit buffs routinely make the case that Bay Area residents can reap benefits by living close to their jobs and the errands of the day.

These were the words of poet, artist, and community builder Marcel Diallo as he led us, a group of planners, developers, city representatives and curious bystanders, on a tour through the Village Bottoms, ...