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Public market and plaza coming to San Jose: When people are asked what’s missing in their downtown, you’ll often hear
Streetcars coming to 22 cities in next 2 years?: One indication that people are becoming increasingly more interested in getting around
GOOD’s neighborhood guide for 2010: GOOD Magazine went all out in their 2010 Neighborhoods Issue with well
Purpose-driven collaborative crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing often gets negatively associated with competitive websites that utilize a crowd
Crowdsourced street to become permanent?: If you’re looking for a model example of crowdsourced placemaking, check out
Sustainable urban village block rises in Ohio: Regular readers may be familiar with the East College Street Project, a
Creative cluster urban village in Wales: Looks like the creative industries will have a vibrant home in Swansea
Crowdsourcing sustainability for Maine hood: As part of the American Institute of Architect’s (AIA) Sustainable Design Assessment
Crowdsourcing placemaking in Portland, Maine: When communities that want change in their built environment have the leadership,
How Lafayette, Louisiana is attracting creatives: With a population over 100,000 and a greater population of half a
In progress: Creative coworking space: Today’s ‘Crowdsourced placemaking in progress’: Creative coworking space is brought to you
The creative industries, GDP and happiness: What does well-being have to do with the economy have to do
Creatives’ as change agents, FAQ: Since the vision of this site is ‘crowdsourcing places for creatives’, it
World’s first super light electric folding bike: Given the shift to more pedestrian-oriented built environments, what kind of transportation
The urban ‘moving bike: Onno Sminia and Louis Pierre Geerinckx represent what we need more of.
Instructables crowdsourced pop-up restaurant: What happens when a virtual world becomes real? What happens when a
Google advocates for cool places too: Many of Google’s HQ employees in Mountain View, Silicon Valley, California fit
Denver’s Living City Block green model: If a cell is defined as the smallest structural and functional unit
Imagine a neighborhood of creative buildings: If you think it’d be cool to live in a building like
Car-free areas in Times Square become permanent: It’s official, as Mayor Bloomberg of New York City announced on February
Car free city for a day in Washington DC: What would a car free city be like? DC residents got a
Bowling + live music + local + green: That essentially captures what New York’s Brooklyn Bowl is all about. Bowling.
Geneva proposes 200 streets as pedestrian only: As creatives are increasingly preferring a world beyond cars in natural cultural
Solution for job creation? ‘Startup coworking’: We all know the economy needs jobs. Not industrial economy jobs, which
The 270 s.f. micro-loft announced in Vancouver: Can you say $675 a month to rent your very own newly
Making transit as cool as cars: For any city taking transit seriously (or not seriously), the video above
Moving the tipping point for investment in human-scaled development: Why is it that the vast majority of new development is at
The ‘outdoor cafe walk’ of Brussels: One of those ‘I wish we had one in my neighborhood’ urban
Prospering in ‘non-Mega-Regions’ for creatives: From a creative economy point of view, are towns, cities and even
A ‘deck’ for crowdsourcing development in DC: Pictures and music are worth more than text, so here’s a deck