Civic Virtues Redefined By Bloomberg Plan

This article from Metropolis Magazine looks at how New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's broad environmental plans will serve to redefine civic virtues for the 21st century.

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September 8, 2007, 9:00 AM PDT

By Nate Berg

"Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits important for the success of the community. The ideas Mayor Bloomberg laid out are nothing short of a new compact with nature for the urban dweller, an acknowledgment that the success of our city will in large part be determined by our success in managing our environment."

"What shape will these civic virtues take? In previous centuries, we learned to express civic virtue through architecture. Will we, like the Greeks before us, invent an architecture that encapsulates these virtues as we build our city to accommodate a million more New Yorkers?"

FULL STORY: Civic Virtue By Design

Wednesday, September 5, 2007 in Metropolis Magazine

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