Introducing
Now City Communities
Now City Communities is a group of passionate people who believe it’s time to change how we build and live to help people and ecosystems thrive. We raise and allocate supportive funding for organizations that create meaningful impact in the realm of sustainable urban development.
Our Mission
To accelerate the transition to resilient, regenerative, and equitable communities & cities.
Our Vision
Walkable green urban neighborhoods throughout the world that provide everyone with access to a healthy, safe, sustainable lifestyle in vibrant supportive communities that are beneficial to the ecosystems we are part of and depend on.
How Your Support Transforms Communities
Develop Sustainable Neighborhoods
Fund projects that integrate green spaces, renewable energy, and sustainable materials, reducing environmental impact and promoting ecological health.
Enhance Social Equity
Create mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhoods that provide attainable housing, altnerative pathways to home ownership, and equitable access to community resources, ensuring everyone benefits from a high quality of life.
Promote Health and Wellbeing
Design urban spaces that encourage physical activity, reduce pollution, and provide access to healthy food options, contributing to overall community health.
Boost Local Economy
Generate job opportunities and support local businesses through thoughtful urban planning and development, fostering economic growth and resilience.
Our Focus
We have identified the levers to pull if we want to change how we build and live. We invest in people and solutions that innovate in these areas.
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Complete Communities
Complete Communities refer to urban or suburban areas where essential amenities such as housing, jobs, education, recreation, and healthcare are accessible within a short walking or cycling distance. Extending beyond basic needs, complete communities aim to include elements that enhance individual wellbeing and community-resilience, such as diverse cultural spaces, green parks, and communal facilities that encourage social interactions and support a high quality of life.
Walkability + Mobility: Prioritizing pedestrian pathways and cycling over car traffic, creates safe, accessible, and enjoyable routes that connect people not just to places but to each other. Imagine safe easy access to multi-modal transport, ensuring that even when you need to venture beyond, your journey is smooth and sustainable.
District Scale Green Infrastructure
Resilience emerges when you always have access to energy, water, and food locally. Super Resilience happens when you and your community are so strong you can help others when they need it. #energy #energy-storage, #thermal #wastewater #last-mile-mobility #data-IT
Imagine #infrastructure-as-a-service
Advanced Construction
Redefining Prefab and Modular…“Kit of parts” building components and modules that are built off-site in controlled environments ensure build quality, waste reduction, and reduced construction-time. This approach not only improves efficiency but also significantly lessens the environmental impact of traditional construction practices.
Healthy Sustainable Materials…Imagine selecting materials based on their lifecycle sustainability, sourcing locally wherever possible to reduce carbon footprint and support innovations in bio-based materials and recycled content that contribute to a #circular-economy.
Next Gen Management
Neighborhood Operating System… Imagine all that as a Neighborhood Operating System in the hands of a dedicated team of smart, empathetic property and community managers helping people thrive and build community.
Zero-Waste Living
Imagine infrastructure, services, and retail partnerships necessary to help eliminate single-use packaging, support reduce/reuse/recycle and composting, making it easy for residents to embrace a #zero-waste-lifestyle.
Urban Agriculture
Imagine managed urban gardens and community-gardens that create food security, enhanced biodiversity and air quality, along with healthy recreation opportunities.
Innovative Finance
Imagine innovative models to finance green living, create social equity and provide attainability of housing for all.
Funding remains one of the biggest challenges in developing innovative real estate solutions. Real estate development is generally dependent on wealthy and powerful local and international investors focused on profit rather than people and planet.
Can Now City Communities find a new model of co-ownership and co-development?
Yes! Now City is part of a growing movement toward balancing the needs of people, planet, and profit with new financial models.
Biophilic Design
Biophilic design connects us to the natural environment through the use of nature and natural materials. Used at both the building and city-scale, this idea has health, environmental, and economic benefits for building occupants and urban environments.
Impact Targets
We set our baseline targets at the neighborhood or district scale, where there is a sweet spot for optimizing resources, impacting quality of life, and building community and connection.
Climate & Resilience
50% Reduction in embodied and operational carbon
30% Reduction in energy consumption per household
0% critical infrastructure failure during natural disasters
Walkability & Quality of Life
Reduce average annual health care cost per person by $500
50% Reduce VMT (vehicle miles traveled)
Access to community & ownership support
Greenspace & Biodiversity
50% of site as open space
(compared to 15% in typical projects)
100% biodiversity restored
Food Security
100% food security
Fresh locally grown food within walking distance
Finance & Economy
Support 50 jobs per acre
(compared to 5 in low density projects)
Enhance local businesses and increase retail foot traffic by 30%
20% reduced cost of living for residents
Water Security
100% water security
20% reduction in water usage
100% rain/grey water recycled
A Scalable Blueprint
If we let ourselves collectively rise to the occasion of building the 25 million homes that America needs by 2050, we can imagine walkable green neighborhoods as the building blocks of cities that are regenerative, resilient, and equitable.
“Cities are a network of neighborhoods.” – Kent Larson, MIT City Science
Now City Communities
8 The Green, #19810
Dover, Delaware 19901