To trade in my fashion week stilettos for cooking flip-flops to spend time with my family taught me the importance of slowing things down and savoring the truly important things in life that we often takeforgranted.
Visit any burgeoning city in the developing world from Shanghai to Mexico City and the same reality emerges: as cities get larger, they spread out, as people begin to aspire, as best they can, for the quality of life that most North Americans and Europeans already takeforgranted.
