The Prouty Garden, a beloved therapeutic healing garden that is the soul of world-renowned Boston Children’s Hospital, is threatened with ill-advised destruction to make room for indoor facilities that could be located elsewhere and only benefit some of the many patients. As a guest of Chris Lovett on BNN (Boston Neighborhood Network) News, Tom describes […]
The Boston Guangzhou Connection: CCTV comes to PEM
BLOG for PEM illustrated Nov 6 2015
Tom discusses Cities with Heart on PBS’ White House Chronicle
Cohosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello discussed the importance of urban parks with Tom in a May broadcast that aired on over 200 stations nationally and on Voice of America. The discussion follows King’s remarks on recent events in Baltimore. At 133 MB, the file is too big to embed here, but is a mouseclick […]
The greatest wave of urbanization in all history
Only slightly less newsworthy than the sea change in world acknowledgment of climate change is the collective realization that the world is spawning the greatest wave of urbanization in all history. By 2030 China will have two hundred cities with a population of a million-plus. It already has sixty of them (compared to the U.S. […]
We are hard-wired for mythic stories
We are hard-wired for mythic stories. We have been since long before the legendary blind Homer enthralled his audiences with his recitation of the tales of Odysseus on the wine-dark sea. It is not just that our kids love to be read to, or that we watch sitcoms or go to movies or read novels, […]
Cities with Heart Questionnaire
But enough about me. I invite you to fill me in by filling this out. Cities with Heart Questionnaire: How often to you visit a park of greenspace each month? Why do you go? What activities do you particularly enjoy? If you were unable to make those visits to greenspace, what difference would it make […]
