“Together is better,” she said, adding that building mutually beneficial relationships will ultimately result in surplus, not scarcity.  How can the city work like an ecosystem?”

Cities can be more generous: a city could build fertile soil, filter air, clean water, sequester carbon, cool the surrounding temperature, provide biodiversity and produce food.

There’s “a nice pallet of technology” that’s already available to builders and designers.

notes : Janine Benyus

http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/generous-cities-biomimicry-and-urban-design.html