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- [UN Habitat City Prosperity Initiative](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/un-habitat-city-prosperity-initiative/) - Notes from FIABCI Meetings at MIPIM in Cannes 1. Cities are growing in size 5 times faster than the population. Lower land prices lead to growth on the urban edge. This leads to a reduction in density across the city. Soon there are no economies of scale for public services as the city moves further
- [A New Vision](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/a-new-vision/) - To this temple of peace We have brought our personal grudges. Let us forever set them aside. From this place of unity Take our fractious egos And give the World a New Vision. I wrote this poem in preparation for the FIABCI UN Luncheon on April 4. Many sleepless nights assured a meaningful, positive event
- [Agency](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/agency/) - “There is a lack of agency here – a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself.” J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy Reading J.D. Vance’s book on a childhood like mine got me searching for this photo of the Berlin Methodist Church in Berlin, TN. US President
- [Equity](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/equity/) - Ten years ago when I was last in Catalonia, Spain was in the midst of a housing bubble. In a media interview at the time, I objected to the term bubble. Burst bubbles don’t reinflate. Value cycles through expansion, contraction, recession and recovery. Both in Spain and the US, everyone generally ignored this basic economic
- [Democracy](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/democracy/) - “Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when
- [Women](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/women/) - “And our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Their way is more difficult than that of our daughters for they must move away from us, without us. Hopefully our sons have what they
- [Change](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/change/) - “Change is the only constant.” Heraclitus During a fitful sleep on my recent Asia trip, this quote surfaced in my dream. I had delivered my lecture in Kuala Lumpur and was in Busan, Korea preparing for a presentation at the FIABCI Asia Pacific Real Estate Congress. I also had another lecture planned in Honolulu on
- [Respect](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/respect/) - “If you realize what the real problem is – losing yourself, giving yourself to some higher end, or to another – you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial. When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.” Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth,
- [Homesick](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/homesick/) - Sitting on a bar stool at BNA (Berry Field Nashville) on my way back to ORD (Orchard Field – Chicago), I chatted up the young man next to me. He was headed back to Milwaukee from Middle Tennessee on the same flight. After small talk, he said that he came back because he was homesick.
- [Chickens](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/chickens/) - "Ain’t nobody here but us chickens." Lyric from song by Louis Jordan Each day at noon and 4 pm, Bambu Stage, a performance art collective from Cambodia performed “Angkor Roo” in the Exhibit Hall just across from the FIABCI Booth at the UN Habitat World Urban Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Roneat Aek
- [Broccoli](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/broccoli/) - “I think it’s great if you find a new flavor of ice cream and you are ready to eat your broccoli for it.” Aanchal Anand, Land Specialist and Blockchain Expert, World Bank Blockchain was the flavor of the day at the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty. I spent a week mingling with
- [Happy](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/happy/) - “What is moral is what you feel good after.” Ernest Hemingway What makes a happy city? The tallest building? A sports championship? A hometown President? Chicago has had all of those, also a devastating tragedy and rebirth. Chicago is the city that works, “hog butcher to the world.” Chicago is a happy city. Try and
- [Cars](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/cars/) - “In this new age, freedom had a very particular character. It was not the freedom to move as one pleased. It was the freedom for cars, and only cars alone, to move very quickly, unhindered by all of the other things that used to happen on streets.” Charles Montgomery, Happy City “The overall reconstruction project
- [Inclusion](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/inclusion/) - “Home is a place we all must find, child. It's not just a place where you eat or sleep. Home is knowing. Knowing your mind, knowing your heart, knowing your courage. If we know ourselves, we're always home, anywhere.” Glenda the Good Witch of the South, The Whiz Today’s cyclone of hate has blown us
- [Land](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/land/) - “As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people, By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood
- [Myth](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/myth/) - “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.” - William Blake Africa is not what you think. Our Colonial Masters have taught us that it is a backward, threatening place.
- [Capitalism](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/capitalism/) - “Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to
- [Distraction](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/distraction/) - “Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.” Cornel West Which came first the ignorance or the violence? The solution lies in understanding the true cause. We have been pushed so far off course by the oligarchs and their perpetual war machine that we don’t even bother to treat
- [Library](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/library/) - "To meet the challenges posed by the scale and scope of urbanization in the context of global uncertainty, disruptive and destructive change, requires a true sense of urgency." H.E. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan From February 8-13, I attended UN-Habitat's World Urban Forum 10 in Ahu Dhabi. President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan and H.E.
- [Risk](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/risk/) - “Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons”. ― Napoléon Bonaparte While I am sure it sounded better in French, the sentiment remains. We are terrible at judging risk and even worse at putting our lives on the line for the right reason. Bamboozled by greed, anger and ignorance; we spend our days chasing
- [Invest](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/invest/) - Opportunistic investors are willing to accept more risk in the anticipation of a higher return. Traditional institutional investors want secure properties with transparent data on occupancy rates, cash flows and operating costs. A typical pension fund manager looks for stable properties, invests for 10- to 20 years and is happy with a 3- to 5%
- [Silk](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/silk/) - “Who speaks a little knows a lot, and when he speaks, it is with great thought.” ― Uzbek Proverb Xi’an was the eastern gate to the historic silk route in China. I visited this portal in 2007. In May I visited the midway point and crossroads in Samarkand. As an invited speaker for the Central
- [Resilience](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/resilience/) - “A good half of the art of living is resilience.” ― Alain de Botton Traveling in Africa during our reset, I was reminded of how resilient we are. Poked and prodded every step of the way, I nevertheless persisted and was rewarded with the gift of compassion. On my third trip to West Africa, I
- [Powerhouse](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/powerhouse/) - “Think about all those women at the market and all those little baskets dumping into bigger baskets at just one market. Still banks won’t lend. They have a misperception of the risk.” Colleague on why women still can’t access loans in West Africa. Women in Nigeria come home from roadside stalls, community markets and other
- [Vigilance](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/vigilance/) - “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” – attributed to Thomas Jefferson Freedom has been taken from too many people. Blaggards take liberty because good people are silent, disorganized or apathetic. Protecting our systems requires that those who value community, inclusion and creativity are more effective than those who seek profit, self-aggrandizement and destruction. “Transforming
- [Mindset](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/mindset/) - “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller Labadi Beach in Accra offers the rhythm, smell and trade of life. Nestled there for the Africa Real Estate Conference and Expo 2022 in September, I spent time catching
- [Trust](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/trust/) - “Progress moves at the speed of trust.” ― Steven Covey Banyan trees always welcome me to Honolulu and remind me that connection is paramount to growth. Despite every impulse to shut down and give up, we need community. For my fifth year celebrating UN-Habitat Urban October in Honolulu, I attended Hawai’i Green Growth’s Annual Partnership
- [Cartesian](https://worldcitizenconsulting.com/cartesian/) - To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say. ― Descartes This transition requires that we help each other manage a world where the center has fallen. We must learn and fail fast and not be afraid to abandon the outdated structures of a dichotomous worldview. External

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