It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we sta….

I want to be known as someone who got caught trying. Yup. Trying to make communities that didn't think much of themselves see themselves as fabulous,….

Jane Jacobs work wouldnt have been complete if it hadn't inspired others to carry it on, and evolve Jane's groundbreaking accomplishments so that the….

I have no interest in arguing with haters, and also, I really don't want to be associated, you know, with a group of people who are only pushing to f….

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable.

If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems..

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one..

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad st….

Build. Transform. Love. These are words I use all the time as we speak about community building and even real estate development because these are th….

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I a….

You know, I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It star….

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects..

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other..

Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will ha….

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the….

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you’re supposed to, or because it’s what you’ve always done — or it’s about giving until it hurts..

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that..