Learning from America: A Call for Collaboration

 At Partners for Livable Communities, we have gained knowledge through more than 30 years of work in America and Western Europe that is applicable to the burgeoning economies of Asia. As Asia’s leaders pursue new ventures in complex issues—growing economic opportunity, protecting the environment, preserving heritage, insuring local values, and creating sustainable futures—the time is right to learn from Partners’ experience.Our colleagues and companions in America and Europe have made many errors in urban development, planning, design and development strategies, but through these mistakes valuable lessons emerged.  Partners can transfer these lessons to help Asian leaders avoid the same mistakes. We also hope this can help your communities preserve their unique heritage, culture, environment, skills and values so that the global society is a mosaic of values that are unique, distinctive and appropriate for each country.

Under the leadership of our President and CEO Robert H. McNulty, Partners is seeking an Asian collaborator that is interested in associating with the Board of Trustees, past and present, and the work agenda of Partners—which is focused upon livability, quality of life, economic and social development. We seek to build a bridge of learning, cooperation and understanding between Asia and the Western communities.

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Robert McNulty: Speaker, Facilitator, Consultant & Author

For more than 30 years, Robert McNulty has thrown his skills and energies into civic invention, arts and creativity, and agendas of social inclusion to beneft the communities of America and abroad.  A coalition builder par excellence, he formed Partners for Livable Places—now Partners for Livable Communities—in 1975, the first organization of its type in American history. Partners is a national, leadership nonproft working to improve the livability of communities by promoting quality of life, economic development, and social equity

Robert H. McNulty, the founder and president of Partners for Livable Communities, is known primarily for persuading local officials to view public and private partnerships as a resource for revitalizing cities in the Americas. He has a distinguished background in design and planning, having been a Loeb Fellow in 1973-74 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; lecturer, adjunct professor, and acting Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s School of Architecture.  He formerly sat on the Alumni Council of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

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