Rebecca Platel — Rural-urban connections

Rebecca Platel is looking at similarities, rather than differences, as she studies rural-urban connections. Platel, the Sustainable Communities program manager at the Carey Institute for Global Good in Rensselaerville, received with the town a $10,000 grant from the Hudson River Valley Greenway Community Grants Program to sustain her work. She says about half of Albany County is urban and about half is rural. Growing up in Rensselaerville, she had two distinct experiences — although the Helderberg Hilltown is rural, it is influenced by people from New York City who live in the historic community, she said. Platel was aware of a world beyond the Hilltowns and, as she got older, she learned about the power of social capital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.