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Key Documents and Videos

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GUD Presentations
California Green Building Conference, University of California, Berkeley, May 28, 2026
Climate+ Podcast, Lincoln Bleveans interviewing Dr. Marc A. Weiss, May 22, 2026

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Europe's New EnergyNet - A Breakthrough Innovation Enabling More Affordable, Abundant, Secure, and Reliable Clean Energy Distribution

Jonas Birgersson Public Lecture (introduced by Marc Weiss and Dan Kammen)

Accelerating the Transition conference, San Francisco Climate Week, UC Law SF,

April 18, 2026

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GUD Presentations, Berkeley Climate Change Network
San Francisco Climate Week, University of California, Berkeley, April 21, 2026

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Why Climate Resilience Stalls at the Local Level, and How Cities Can Unlock Real Delivery

Accelerating the Transition conference, San Francisco Climate Week, UC Law SF, April 20, 2026

(Marc Weiss, Jan Whittington, Lou Riordan, Jonas Birgersson, Thomas Pogue)

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EnergyNet Explained was published on September 9, 2025 by Cornell University's e-archive website:  https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08152. Click the image below to view this article.

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Below is Chapter 12 (pages 323-351) in Reconnecting the City with Nature and History: Towards Circular Regeneration Strategies. Book edited by Luigi Fusco Girard, Peter Nijkamp, and Francesca Nocca. Published in 2023 by FrancoAngeli in Milan, Italy.

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(Michael Menser, Jonas Birgersson, Marc Weiss, Jimmy Chen, Franklin Carrero-Martinez)

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Links to More Publications

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Panama City Sustainable Innovation Zone (ACTA): Key Accomplishments and Lessons

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Viable Cities (Sweden), UN-Habitat, and GUD Seminar on "Local-Level Integration and Systems Change for Urban Sustainability and Climate Action," House of Sweden, Washington DC, May 10, 2022

GUD Vice Chair Sir Peter Hall, the Origins of Global Urban Development, and the Western Urban and Regional Collective at the University of California, Berkeley

The Global Future of Green Capitalism

Metropolitan Economic Strategy: The Key to Prosperity

Report to the OECD and the Government of Wales on the NoMa (North of Massachusetts Avenue) Strategic Economic Development Initiative in Washington, DC

Report to the National Governors Association on State Policy Approaches to Promote Metropolitan Economic Strategy

Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) Conference Agenda, Planning for Sustainable Economic Development Across the Americas, Curitiba, Brazil, June 7-8, 2011

Conference on Metropolitan Economic Strategy: How Urban Regions Innovate and Prosper in the Global Marketplace, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, DC, September 20-23, 2000

Global Urban Development (GUD) Magazine, 2005-2008

​United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Policy in Focus international journal, December 2016: The Rio Grande do Sul Leapfrog Economic Strategy and the Porto Alegre Sustainable Innovation Zone (ZISPOA)

21st Century Leapfrog Economic Strategy: Rio Grande do Sul Becomes the Most Sustainable and Innovative Place in Latin America by 2030. GUD Report to the Rio Grande do Sul State Government and the World Bank, March 2015

Local and Regional Economic Development Opportunities Related to the Implementation of the Sao Jose do Norte EBR Shipyard in Rio Grande do Sul

Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainable Innovation: The Third Wave of Industrial and Urban Economic Growth for Minas Gerais

Sustainable Economic Development Strategies

Southwest Florida Climate Prosperity Strategy, June 2009

GUD Denver Seeds Report on Best Practices for Urban Food Strategies

Presentation on San Antonio’s Mission Verde, at ECPA, Planning for Sustainable Economic Development Across the Americas, Curitiba, Brazil, June 7-8, 2011

Presentation on San Jose’s Green Vision, at ECPA, Planning for Sustainable Economic Development Across the Americas, Curitiba, Brazil, June 7-8, 2011

Presentation on Delaware’s Clean Energy Economic Strategy, at ECPA, Planning for Sustainable Economic Development Across the Americas, Curitiba, Brazil, June 7-8, 2011

Presentation on the Portland Metro Climate Prosperity Project, at ECPA, Planning for Sustainable Economic Development Across the Americas, Curitiba, Brazil, June 7-8, 2011

Silicon Valley Climate Prosperity Strategy, February 2009

International Economic Development Council (IEDC) Climate Prosperity Handbook

Climate Prosperity: Democratic Capitalism with a Twist

Climate Prosperity Webinar Video: Shari Garmise, Stephanie McClellan, Graham Richard, Blair Ruble, Phillip Singerman, and Marc Weiss at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, DC, February 4, 2009

ICLEI—Local Governments for Sustainability Interview Part 1: Creating Climate Prosperity

ICLEI—Local Governments for Sustainability Interview Part 2: Climate Prosperity in Action

American Chamber of Commerce Executives Chamber Executive Climate Prosperity Article

Climate Prosperity Themes

Climate Prosperity Policy

Report to the Mistra Foundation on Sustainable Urban Development in the US

Report to the Mistra Foundation on Sustainable Urban Development in Canada

Barcelona Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

Cape Town Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

Curitiba Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

Hampton Roads (Virginia) Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

San Diego-Tijuana Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

Shanghai Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

Singapore Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

Trieste-Koper Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

The Economic Resurgence of Washington, DC: Citizens Plan for Prosperity in the 21st Century

Strategic Economic Development: Lessons from Washington, DC

Southwest Washington, DC: A Strategy for Revitalizing Waterside Mall and the Waterfront

Baltimore Economic Growth Strategy

The Baltimore, Maryland Metropolitan Region: A Community Views Its Future--Civic Leaders' Strategies for Economic Prosperity and Quality of Life in the 21st Century. HUD Report on Metropolitan Economic Strategy

America's New Economy and the Challenge of the Cities: Portland Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

Comeback Communities: The Revival of America's Cities

Report to the Center for National Policy on US Housing Policies

New American Neighborhoods: Building Homeownership Zones to Revitalize Our Nation's Communities

President Clinton's National Homeownership Strategy

New Urbanism and Community Development

Preservation Magazine Article on New Hope for Failed Housing

Principles for Designing and Planning Homeownership Zones

HOPE VI Planning and Design: Transforming Severely Distressed Public Housing into Livable Communities

Housing Policy Can Work

Developing and Financing the ‘Garden Metropolis’: Urban Planning and Housing Policy in 20th Century America

Richard T. Ely and the Contribution of Economic Research to National Housing Policy, 1920-1940

Marketing and Financing Homeownership: Mortgage Lending and Public Policy in the US, 1918-1989

Recommendations for the Establishment of a Multibank Community Development Corporation for Economic Development in South Central Los Angeles

The Politics of Real Estate Cycles

Community Builders and Community Associations: The Role of Real Estate Developers in Private Residential Governance

Skyscraper Zoning: New York’s Pioneering Role

Density and Intervention: New York’s Planning Traditions

Real Estate History: An Overview and Research Agenda

The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning

Planning Subdivisions: Community Builders and Urban Planners in the Early 20th Century

The Real Estate Industry and the Politics of Zoning in San Francisco, 1914-1928

Planning for Chicago: The Changing Politics of Metropolitan Growth and Neighborhood Development

Neighborhood Lending Agreements: Negotiating and Financing Community Development

Community Planning for Technological Development: A New Bargaining Process

Technology Development, Neighborhood Planning, and Negotiated Partnerships: The Case of Pittsburgh’s Oakland Neighborhood

State and Local Economic Development Policy: Where to Put Your Money

State and Local Government Roles in Industrial Innovation

High-Technology Industries and the Future of Employment

Berkeley and the Regional Economy: The Need for a New “Space Program”

Beyond Shopping Malls: Planning for Jobs and for People in Berkeley, California

Economic Development: An Implementation Strategy for the City of Berkeley

Plant Closing Legislation: Cities Deserve an Advance Warning

HUD Urban Impacts Analysis of Metropolitan Development in the New Jersey Meadowlands

The Origins and Legacy of Urban Renewal

Who Benefits from Intergovernmental Transfers?

Pension Fund Investments: The Issue of Control

Many more documents are available on the Publications page and other pages of GUD's archived original website, www.globaluban.org
 

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