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How cities can invest in cool places, and why they often don’t: Utilizing the Fifth Discipline principles of systems thinking, we bring to you
Global cities a guide for global-minded neighborhoods: While not every city can be classified as a recognized global city,
Metropolitan areas with the most ‘walkable urban places’ per capita: If you want to know the metropolitan areas with the greatest number
Crowdsourcing an eco-company, ‘places’ next: While green cafes are being crowdsourced in Washington DC and New Orleans,
Pedestrian walk in NYC? ‘Hey, let’s try it: Apparently that was the attitude of New York’s (DOT) Department of Transportation,
A treatise on building vibrant cultural quarters: Today’s entry will be a little uncommon, but rather extraordinary as we
Cultural Quarters: Necessary Conditions and Success Factors checklist: Continuing our understanding of natural cultural districts, here’s Urban Cultures’ (profiled previously)
The four types of cultural quarters, progressively speaking: “It can be posited that urban cultural quarters, or even urban districts
How do you know you’re in a natural cultural district?: …that is, unlike an unnatural one where most of the buildings are
The impact of ‘natural cultural districts: Maybe you should think twice about investing millions in that fancy new
Crowdsourcing a NOLA network to a team to a building to a coffeehouse…: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
“Affordable housing doesn’t have to be ugly”: That’s ‘ugly’ in terms of design and craftsmanship, not so much style,
Music scenes a sign of economic rise: What does a thriving music scene have to do with a city’s
Cincy’s new ‘Q’ for contemporary urban living: That’s ‘Q’ is in ‘quarter’, as in the newly renovated Gateway Quarter
Cubicleless in Seattle: Going creative (2 of 2): So where do the creatives in Seattle go to cowork when all
Cubicleless in Seattle – The beginnings (1 of 2): Maybe these refrains from Seattle entrepreneurs regarding office space, quoted in seattlepi
London’s car-free shopping day a huge hit: What does $200 million have to do with cars? Absolutely nothing if
Beta community update Q4 2007: Gear Factory, Syracuse, NY Developer Rick Destitio is renovating a historic 1910
How To Be Creative’ – from Gapingvoid, (3 of 3): The last in this three part series interpreting Gapingvoid’s How To Be
How To Be Creative’ – from Gapingvoid, (2 of 3): Continuing our look at Gapingvoid’s tips on How To Be Creative as
How To Be Creative’ – from ‘Gapingvoid’ (1 of 3): You know creativity = economic growth, so how do you get more
Subways: The New Urban Status Symbol: That’s the headline of this week’s BusinessWeek article, reflecting the fact that
‘The party that everyone attends’… on the highway: 30 years ago, some creative minds in Bogota, Colombia launched an experiment
Live art’ among living streets: As profiled in the previous entry, Buenos Aires’ bohemian neighborhood of San
The mother of Sunday street closings: Six days of the week this street (Defensa) in the bohemian neighborhood
Evidence in favor of TODs (transit-oriented development): Believe it or not there are still parties out there that argue
‘Augmented reality’ – Experiencing future places… live: Many of us walk down a street with a vision for what
Trending 2008 into cool towns: Where is the market headed for 2008? While those who read this