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What’s hot? Bicycles?!: As you can see by the graph, bicycle production is enjoying a

A live-cowork site in San Fran: You’ve heard of live-work units where owners either live about their workplace

The contemporary urban delivery vehicle: So what’s the delivery truck equivalent of the bicycle? Look no further

International Small Cool Apartments 2008: Not to be outdone by the smallest coolest apartments in the U.S.

Small Cool Apartments 2008: It’s that time of year again to check out the winners of

Ten defining principles for a true green community: There’s a ton of buzz on green communities sprouting up everywhere, and

The first zero-energy community in North America?: Being that a zero-energy community means 100% renewable energy, that’s no small

Zero-energy community in the UK: There’s a lot of talk of zero-energy (100% renewable energy) urban communities,

The first 100% fully wind-powered town in the U.S.: Rock Port, Missouri may only have a population of 1300, but it

A third place for bicyclists: You may have heard about the cafe for bike commuters, but what

The continued rise of the home office: We hear a lot of buzz about the popularity of people working

Q&A: How do you initiate a beta community?: It’s the question I’ve lately been getting asked the most, so I

The ‘creative treehouse: If you’re looking for an affordable, creative place to work or hang

Workforce housing’ and why local businesses want it: Imagine if half of all your employees suddenly couldn’t afford to live

Carbon footprint per passenger mile: For those of you wondering what the carbon impact is between walking,

Urban square spontaneous: Mass-created fountain: In this ongoing series of spontaneous creative happenings that are attracted to

Urban square spontaneous: Roman pillow fight: What’s the so called Committee for the Termination of National Apathy to

Being authentically green goes beyond ‘gizmo green: As urban designer Steve Mouzon states, there’s a lot of press on

Paris’ version of coworking – with cafe: Of course a coworking site in Paris would have a cafe. Strangely

Moving streetcar nightclub: Here’s a much more conscientious alternative to the Hummer limousine (no, not

Crowdsourcing a music festival: This is another one of those ‘it was just a matter of

Portland striving to be the U.S. bike capital: Already owning bragging rights to being the greenest city in the U.S.

Sign of things to come: Carfree conference comes to the U.S.: What’s a carfree conference? That’s probably what most U.S. citizens would wonder

Crowdsourcing + viral loop networks = natural cultural districts: At first glance this may seem like a lot of made-up words,

What do ‘viral loops’ have to do with communities worth billions?: First of all, what’s a viral loop? Viral comes from viral marketing

The next gen of Central Parks are on their way: Not only are urban dwellers in select cities across the country about

Creative lessons from a green greenfield village: Readers of this website know we don’t normally cover greenfield developments, that

Check out those street lamps!: The street lamps in the photo above (yes, that’s a photo) were

Attract more creatives with ‘anchored coworking: Creatives, free agents, entrepreneurs and mobile knowledge workers may be driving the

La Rambla – one of the world’s greatest pedestrian streets: La Rambla, which translates to ‘intermittent water flow’, is the iconic hub