Cities can do nothing to promote economic development, according to Mario Polese. But are the development patterns he enumerates missing the patterns of development of human culture and consciousness? Polese traces the modern to post-modern fads that have influenced community economic development (CED) at the city scale from the 1960′s to early 2000′s: strategic industries, industrial complexes, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘eco-region’
City Development Patterns Miss the Patterns of Development
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community economic development, design, eco-region, economic development, integral city intelligences on December 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Are Forbes 10 Best Places the Most Eco-Sustainable?
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, climate, Ecosphere, tagged best places, eco-region, sustainability on May 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Forbes has just published an interesting list of the 10 Best Places to Live. Below is how they describe their criteria and selection process. It is interesting to contemplate whether “Best Places” can measure up to “most sustainable places”. It strikes me that these are beautiful and inspiring places, and I wonder if they are economically [...]
