Eco-Cities Take Root

I am interviewed in a wonderful article, Eco-Cities Take Root available at GreenBiz.com.

A sample:

Eric Corey Freed, principal at the San Francisco-based organicARCHITECT, believes that looking at basic community principles is key to make big changes. "In truth," he says, "we need to focus our attention on public transit more than anything else. There have been few big ideas in public transit since the 1960s, and we are stuck in this 'chicken and egg' mentality of not being able to build it without ridership, not having ridership because it isn't built out. So technologies such as traffic monitoring and control systems as extremely important to incorporate into urban planning, architectural design and development today."

The effort didn't start so recently, and it's going to take a lot more to continue to re-green what mankind has taken away. And perhaps it's not so surprising that these next-generation communities are springing up in China, with its combination of dire environmental need and authoritarian government. But there's great potential for the future of eco-cities to take root around the globe.

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