And then there were 7. GREAT DAY in The Netherlands for the cities of seven different countries!mailchi.mp/intelligentcommun… On to @CBUSRegion! #thenetherlands @aargelich @eipo @BL_Chemelot @maastrichtinfo @BableSmart @EIPO_projects

Who will walk through the portal from Smart21 to Top7 @Newcommunities ? Luncheon & Announcement under way in #brightlandslimburg The Netherlands soon.

My fellow ICF co-founder @JohnGJung1 Chilling in Malaga, Spain and doing an audit for Intelligent Community certification before we hookup next week in Maastricht to name the world's Top7 cities. No place like home. @Newcommunities @aargelich #malaga

Welcome to New York. youtu.be/cNL4W6SHuzQ?is=T76u… Walk! But watch those e-bikes! Our community is open. Hate to leave it for a week..... #fifa @Newcommunities

Where did the genius of New York & the @Newcommunities ideas & secret sauce of collaboration come from? youtu.be/aZYC7N4UNrk?is=2zfz… Come to The Netherlands & ask them. They invented us in a mere 2 weeks! @EIPO_projects #triplehelix @JohnGJung1 #knicks @LasRozasCiudad

Getting ready to "sail" from old New Amsterdam to The Netherlands for @Newcommunities Top7 Conference & Announcement next week. Current IC of the Year @RegionofDurham Canada will be there along with a diverse group from around the world! intelligentcommunity.org @aargelich @thenetherlands

The "secret sauce" for creating better places to live? It's not secret. It ain't sauce. The next time the #Knicks play, watch them put their hands together before taking the Court. This gesture is profoundly related to the survival of our communities. 🏀 @aargelich @nieuwsuit043 #euro

Knicks looking to rng it home (no place like it 2-0 vs @spurs. Mayor does ask us to stay off the hoods of EMS vehicles though..... gothamist.com/news/mamdani-i… Good idea! #goknicks

Thinking of my friend Alexei Navalny and his family today. He would have turned 50 today. Goodbye to my fearless friend, Alexei Navalny washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Slime Summer means more community building & cleaner #NYC neighborhoods! instagram.com/p/DY7NadxiOaWE… Remember my @Newcommunities podcast with @pickuppigeons?

The dream of immigrants is still alive in New York kitchens, it just has changed in the new epoch. Marc Meyer gives it the voice of th community he has mentored in his restaurants. Remarkable. @BeaconPressBks @aargelich #immigrants @BowerySt @JamesMartinSJ @NewYorker #podcast

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

Lesson for city leaders & the voting public: don't shoot your horse in the head! Here's how The Dutch, Hilliard, Ohio & others succeed in our new frontier! @EIPO_projects #generalcuster #buffalo @aargelich @limburg #collaboration @tricyclemag @FareedZakaria #icftop7

"Home from Space" has emotional gravity & "Moon Shots" can take place anywhere. @sspi @aargelich @babcockranchfl @BecamexIDC #artemis @ET_Euregio @JohnGJung1 @nieuwsuit043 #icftop7

The city of Curitiba, Brazil is defined by great leaders & urban planning that make it maybe the best "non-marquee" city in Brazil. But the "soul" of the place can be found, often enough, in one person's life & stories. #jamielerner @aargelich @CBC @EIPO_projects #brazilcuritiba #vlog

Development of the local, independent of dysfunctional national governments where necessary, is where people will innovate & shape a quality life. instagram.com/p/DXrZf5oFhTR/… 21 models are among dozens. intelligentcommunity.org @JohnGJung1

It won't be the same backfield but #leavenodoubt about the direction. x.com/i/status/2049275224953… @AlwaysIrishINC #football

So we made the 150 year history coffee table book from the great city of Waterloo, Canada. Now, why would that be? @citywaterloo #techtriangle #icfawards @BableSmart @Brightlandsnl @aargelich @UWaterloo @JohnGJung1

JJ and I get into it deep about why cities are the fortress of the future - and that #ramen noodles & whisky tent when walking in Tokyo story!! @BableSmart @EIPO_projects @icfinstitute @limburg @aargelich @JohnGJung1 @Tokyo_gov @smartecocity

Thanks again Curitiba for an amazing @Newcommunities #Smart21 event. Great to meet the late visionary mayor Jamie Lerner's driver & share a ton of great stories! @JohnGJung1 @aargelich @LasRozasNews @Brightlandsnl