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Codesigning the Future of Cities Through Regenerative Placemaking
Reimagining How We Live, Build, and Belong
A forward-looking blueprint for leaders, creators, and changemakers ready to reshape cities and communities to be more interconnected, resilient, and life-affirming.
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Generation Regeneration is a guide for anyone ready to reimagine — and co-create — the cities and communities of tomorrow. It takes you inside the regenerative placemaking movement, models, and mindsets transforming real estate from a transactional industry into a force for healing — of people, communities, and ecosystems. You'll discover what's breaking the system, but more importantly, what's replacing it. Across the world, new approaches are already working: community-driven developments, biophilic design, circular building practices, social-infrastructure innovations, and place-based frameworks that restore vitality to neighborhoods while strengthening cultural identity and belonging.
Generation Regeneration is for anyone who believes their communities can be more connected — and is ready to help make it happen. It’s for emerging leaders, founders, investors, policymakers, students, and engaged citizens who want practical ways to shape thriving local economies and civic life. Whether you’re building something new or revitalizing what already exists, this book is a guide to stepping up, getting involved, and playing an active role in regenerating the places you care about.
Tony Cho is a placemaking visionary who combines spiritual enlightenment, a mission to preserve the environment, and decades of real estate development success. He knows how to dream and really manifest it.
Dan Buettner
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Zones
This book is for anyone who's tired of watching our cities—and our communities—fall apart under outdated and extractive systems. It's for architects and planners who want to design for connection, not just density. For developers and investors ready to create spaces that heal rather than isolate. For community leaders, policymakers, and conscious citizens who know we can—and must—build differently.
What happens next is up to us. We can let the status quo keep driving disconnection, environmental degradation, and social inequality—or we can regenerate our cities and, in doing so, restore community, resilience, and shared wellbeing.
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A new approach to urban development is emerging, one that centers collaboration, ecological stewardship, and human thriving — we call it “Regenerative Placemaking.”
Tony Cho
Tony has partnered with WorthyBooks, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, to place copies of his upcoming book in public libraries nationwide — so that readers everywhere can access his framework for regenerative placemaking and community-led urban futures. Every donation is fully tax-deductible, and 100% goes directly toward getting books into libraries.
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