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Apartment Therapy’s Fall Colors 2007 winner: If you’re looking for color inspiration when it comes to home interior
When you can’t get enough outdoor dining: Especially for cities with great weather all year round, restaurants often find
The neighborhood center for creatives in ‘Baires: With the rise of creatives and design in ‘BAires’ (the edgy name
The rise of design in Buenos Aires: Here’s one way to transform an industrial city like Buenos Aires, Argentina
Monocle Magazine’s international cool cities guide: Shouldn’t there be a multimedia magazine by now that captures cool culture,
The outdoor cinemas of Greece: What happens when you combine great weather with a return to inner
Germany’s #1 third place: If you’re visiting Munich and drink beer, you probably already know about
The Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year is ‘locavore: Locavore – local resident who tries to eat only food grown or
The first community-oriented crowdfunding tool hits the market: Crowdfunding is what happens when $ are applied to crowdsourcing, such as
The most bike-friendly cities in the world: I don’t know what it is, but this seems to be the
The world’s first ‘bike lift: How can you tell a city really cares about bicyclists? By spending
A model within a model of sustainability: Sweden’s Bo01 development, aka City of Tomorrow, is designed to be a
Self expression at its residential best: In the industrial age people had a choice of either a mass-produced
The stackable city car – revisited: Almost two years ago we profiled the wildly innovative, stackable, electric City
Don’t have a coworking site? Adopt a cafe: CooperBricolage (CooBric) is a coworking site company without a coworking site. They’re
Ani DiFranco and her church-turned-concert hall: Recording artist Ani DiFranco wanted to energize the downtown of her hometown
The creatives: Rengen, Cultural Creatives, Creative Class: Who are the creatives? Many of you in the know have heard
Make way for the second Renaissance: It is happening in our cities now, and it rivals the Renaissance
The ‘little urban experiences’ of Buenos Aires: Looking for a little ‘hands on’ inspiration for a cool town? Venture
“If you were to rebuild your city from scratch…”: A sampling of the emerging consciousness for better cities… So what are
Green building 201: Water: Green buildings to the people reading this website is like buildings with
Small town green micro-village: “I never leave the courtyard,” says one of the tenants of the
Cool towns need a Linus Torvalds/Steve Jobs combo (2 of 2): To recap the previous entry, Linus Torvalds galvanized an army of people
Cool towns need a Linus Torvalds/Steve Jobs combo (1 of 2): I am speaking on a panel today at the Urban Land Institute’s
The creative class, Richard Florida, cooltowns and Joe Namath: Some people have been wondering how the creative class relates to cooltowns
Having fun connecting with people over food, play and making an impact: There are many of us who feel that food, play and contributing
Delaware seeks some creative identity: The name ‘Delaware’ doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue when naming places
A design guru speaks on architecture: Continuing a look at world-changing design from the annual Fast Company series,
