Seventy years ago GM's Futurama generated a compelling vision that spawned a new American ideal of a spacious, car-centered good life. We now know that paradigm no longer provides opportunity, exacerbates climate change and is diminishing our quality of life.  It is simply not sustainable.

We now have an urgent…

We're in Grand Rapids with 40 urban change agents today to launch VELOCITY, a movement to reimagine, reinvent and revitalize cities.  We'll be posting video, photos, sketches, blog entries and anything else we come up with to tell the story of the future of cities.  Check out our VELOCITY home…