Restorative Development: A holistic, system-based development approach in which environmental, social, and economic performances are interconnected to yield positive benefits for all stakeholders.   Click on the video above to see the discussion.

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Cities face an exponentially expanding set of ‘wicked’ challenges – rapid urbanization, resource insecurity, climate volatility, deteriorating infrastructure, and socio-economic instability.

Water, energy, food production, and waste management are completely independent systems and are centralized, linear, and support a one-time use model (which is also called the takemake-waste economy). This leaves many synergies and benefits unrealized. Similar to our physical infrastructure, economic and social infrastructures have been built in silos, with urban planning only pivoting to a more holistic approach in recent years.