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villiers island to be climate positive community

Toronto's Don River gets a whole new island

When completed, Villiers Island will be one of the first “climate positive” communities in Toronto.
This beautiful suburban neighborhood is missing one thing: cars

This beautiful suburban neighborhood is missing one thing: cars

An 11-minute train ride outside of Hamburg, this new community will let you have a car—you just can’t park it near your house.
A growing movement takes on the mega-development
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A growing movement takes on the mega-development

Sunnyside Yard has been billed as New York City’s utopian development. Activists who opposed an Amazon HQ says there’s no such thing.
Seattle’s ‘autonomous zone’ belongs to a grand tradition of utopian experiments
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Seattle’s ‘autonomous zone’ belongs to a grand tradition of utopian experiments

2020 is a disaster. Some people see a chance to scrap everything and start over.
When the Prince of Wales is your landlord
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When the Prince of Wales is your landlord

On England’s southwestern coast, a community built by the Duchy of Cornwall is attracting residents who have bought into Prince Charles’s housing philosophy.
The world’s first “high-tech eco village” will reinvent suburbs

The world’s first “high-tech eco village” will reinvent suburbs

ReGen village, in the Netherlands, will collect and store its own water and energy, grow its own food, and process much of its own waste. Also: no cars.
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