Christopher Stoney and Robert Hilton (CURE): Sustainable Cities: Canadian Reality or Urban Myth? The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them; are these companies creating a smarter metropolis — or just making money? City dwellers of the future will experience more violent thunderstorms more often, and Mother Nature has nothing to do with it: our built environment is manufacturing its own weather. Merging complex systems science and ecology, resilience scientists have broken new ground on understanding natural ecosystems — and now they are bringing this novel science to the city (and more). A review of Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environment by Cliff Moughtin, Kate McMahon Moughtin, and Paola Signoretta. An interview with Joan Fitzgerald, author of Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development. What a longtime American-born resident of Japan has learned about his adopted country's ancient practice of sustainability. The big green apple: Environmentally-sound homes for the poor are a model for everyone else. Green Detroit: Why the city is Ground Zero for the sustainability movement. Is progressive Asheville Obama’s vision for America? Hip, environmentally aware, self-reliant and undeniably quaint, Asheville, NC is a progressive’s vision of what America could be. Portland and “elite cities”: Is Oregon’s metropolis a leader among American cities or just strange? From Cities and the Environment, a special issue on Urban Pollinators and Community Gardens. Through an ancient yet obscure craft, still-living plants can themselves be shaped into bridges, tables, ladders, chairs, sculptures — even buildings.
