Smart cities include smart communities

Community led development can be beautiful for the way it looks AND the way it feels. Pictured above is PDX Commons — a place where it’s members will age with the support of friends and neighbors. Image from Cohousing Solutions.

I was very honored to be asked to talk at the most recent Chancellor’s Builders and Friends Dinner on October 25, 2018. I was asked to speak about my research into cohousing and it’s relationship to the concept of smart cities.

It’s just 3 mins long, so as a person who is, despite my best efforts, getting increasingly academic, you can imagine what a feat it was to keep it that short.

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