Generation Regeneration
Co-designing the Future of Cities Through Regenerative Placemaking
A forward-looking blueprint for leaders, creators and changemakers ready to reshape cities and communities to be more interconnected, resilient and life-affirming.
Greenleaf Book Group · August 11, 2026 · ISBN 9798886455083A guide for anyone ready to co-create the cities 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, and, 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.
For anyone who believes their communities can be more connected, and is ready to help make it happen. 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, it’s a guide to stepping up and regenerating the places you care about.
What leaders are saying.
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.
Before picking up Generation Regeneration, I didn’t realize how much our cities, and our lives, could be transformed by this revolutionary concept. Tony Cho breaks down complex ideas into something simple, accessible, and downright inspiring.
A complete and thorough introduction to the world of regenerative placemaking. Totally accessible to all, and a reminder that hope is far from lost for this planet.
Cho offers practical solutions rooted in optimism and bold thinking, perfectly aligning with the challenges of our time. His work is essential reading for anyone who believes that our cities and communities can not only sustain us but regenerate us.
We can rebuild what matters.
This book is for anyone who’s tired of watching our cities, and our communities, fall apart under outdated and extractive systems. 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.
What happens next is up to us.
“A new approach to urban development is emerging, one that centers collaboration, ecological stewardship, and human thriving. We call it Regenerative Placemaking.”
Tony Cho
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