Looking for the "Soul" of Your City? Check Your Moral Imagination

The 200+ Intelligent Communities in the world are conservative and liberal. Rich and poor. Large, medium and small. They are located in Asia, South America, North America, Europe and Australia. Despite their vast differences culturally they share something which ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla identifies as being core to their energy and success. It is the thing which, in the long run, makes their smart city or Intelligent Community policies successful economically too. They understand reality as it is but are fearless in applying their moral imagination to their experience. What does that look like? Lou gives us his view.

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Looking for the "Soul" of Your City? Check Your Moral Imagination is an episode from The Intelligent Community by The Intelligent Community Forum.

This episode is 10:57 long.

This episode was published on Feb 4, 2026.

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