http://citiwire.net/post/1710/ Our mission... to reflect a new narrative for 21st century cities and regions. Leaving behind the 20th century pattern of cheap energy, endless automobility, burgeoning suburbs, threatened inner cities. To a challenge-packed 21st century: energy prices headed north, perilous carbon emissions, deepening have-have not divisions, excruciating social problems and deep challenges in education. But a time of exciting promise, too. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:15:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://citiwire.net/post/1710/comment-page-1/#comment-1140 Neal Peirce Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:04:05 +0000 http://citiwire.net/?p=1710#comment-1140 Message received from Jonathan Rose, illustrious “green” developer and sustainability advocate: These two columns (Flint and Peirce) are great companion stories. We are dealing with two kinds of cities. There are the proactive ones, which want to take full advantage of these programs and become more competitive. And there are the cities and counties in which tea party candidates win, who believe that planning and federal funds are evil, and which will not pursue the strategies and funds you describe. Those cities are about to condemn themselves to being the losers of the future. I think it would be very helpful If you would write something about that choice, so that pro-livability advocates could forward it to their elected officials. In the 1960s , Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia, had similar populations and economies. One turned inward and segregated. One turned outward and integrated . Forty years later, there is little that Birmingham can do to overtake Atlanta. Their fate was made in 1964. Message received from Jonathan Rose, illustrious “green” developer and sustainability advocate: These two columns (Flint and Peirce) are great companion stories. We are dealing with two kinds of cities. There are the proactive ones, which want to take full advantage of these programs and become more competitive. And there are the cities and counties in which tea party candidates win, who believe that planning and federal funds are evil, and which will not pursue the strategies and funds you describe. Those cities are about to condemn themselves to being the losers of the future. I think it would be very helpful If you would write something about that choice, so that pro-livability advocates could forward it to their elected officials. In the 1960s , Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia, had similar populations and economies. One turned inward and segregated. One turned outward and integrated . Forty years later, there is little that Birmingham can do to overtake Atlanta. Their fate was made in 1964.

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