CHAPTER 8

Confronting Culture Clash

There are two ways you encounter things in the world that are different. One is everything that comes in reinforces what you already believe and everything that you know. The other thing is that you stay flexible enough or curious enough and maybe unsure of yourself enough, or maybe you are more sure of yourself—I don’t know which it is—that the new things that come in keep reforming your worldview.

Jane Jacobs

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Anonymous

BY THE SPRING OF 2014, IT WAS CLEAR TO ALL THAT LIVING PLANIT’S CITY building was not unfolding as initially envisioned. Why had PlanIT Valley failed to ...

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