Weekly Press: Urban Land Institute holds Cities Go Green Forum
Weekly Press: Urban Land Institute holds Cities Go Green Forum
The Philadelphia District Council of the Urban Land Institute held its seventh annual Urban Issues Forum on Wednesday, September 9 at the Union League of Philadelphia. The topic of this year’s forum was “Cities Go Green: Re-Tooling Economic Environmental Performance.”
Jonathan Rose, the keynote speaker, set the tone for the forum when he told the audience, “The question is not, ‘Will we grow?’ but ‘How do we responsibly grow?’”
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