Initiated as an 'idea worth spreading' and submitted to The City 2.0 as part of the 2012 TED Prize challenge, the project's "White Paper on Initiating an Integral Economic Laboratory" models a framework for creating an urban ecosystem.

Founded in 2009

402 4th Steet. SE
Roanoke, Virginia United States
http://theemergenteconomist.blogspot.com/
[email protected]

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integral, quality, sustainability, Urban, wellbeing

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