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Gena Wirth and her colleagues at the landscape architecture firm SCAPE were among the groups that worked to answer that question, and they arrived at the conclusion that our country's waterfronts — not just in New York, but everywhere — should fulfill three duties: reducing risk of future damage, improving the shoreline's ecological resilience and doing both duties without sacrificing the public's access to the water.
Davis, a keynote speaker and bestselling author, spent three years crisscrossing the country searching for a common thread in ways thriving communities market themselves. He found most successful places have “staked a claim” and made themselves synonymous with an industry or lifestyle. In fact, through research he has found that communities that stake a claim earn over $3 billion more a year than comparable communities that don't.