The Just Communities Blog

Incubator Goes to Millvale, PA

On April 24, a diverse group of community and urban development leaders packed into the Millvale Food & Energy Hub...

EcoDistricts Certified Welcomes Four New Neighborhoods to Growing Cohort

Two years ago, we launched EcoDistricts Certified, the world’s only verification platform that helps neighborhood teams embed equity, resilience and...

EcoDistricts Goes to South Africa: Lessons Learned from Johannesburg and Cape Town Low Emissions Program

In 2017, South Africa was gripped by an emerging climate crisis that would begin to threaten the economy and political...

EcoDistricts AP Spotlight: Walter Fieuw

Walter Fieuw, is the Founder & Principal Consultant at Making of Cities, a niche urban and regional development consultancy pushing...

Rewiring Urban Planning in Cape Town

Can Partnership Between Neighborhood Civic Organizations and the City of Cape Town Help Reverse Decades of Spatial Apartheid? On November...

Building Our Beloved Communities at the EcoDistricts Summit

Three weeks ago, 300 leading urban and community development practitioners descended on Atlanta for the 2017 EcoDistricts Summit, a spirited and inspiring gathering on the...

Some Hard Truths About Infrastructure

By Douglass Sims, Natural Resources Defense Council When our country was first being built, our vision of infrastructure was one...

Developing Strong Mixed-Income Communities in Atlanta’s East Lake

Reinventing redevelopment: Giving residents a reason to stay in Atlanta’s East Lake The transformation of Atlanta’s East Lake neighborhood made...