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New Orleans attracting entrepreneurs in droves: New Orleans is attracting scores of entrepreneurs and small businesses, and there
Retrofitting office parks into urban villages: Real estate development is one of the slowest to react as an
Amsterdam’s extraordinary bike culture: No other city in the world matches Amsterdam’s biking culture, where more
Crowdsourced placemaking – charted: Thanks to the geniuses at ThinkStudio that brought us the direct economy
The creative economy = the ‘direct economy: For the purpose of understanding the evolution of our economy and our
Crowdsourcing the design of live-work: Washington DC developer Jair Lynch has a unique live-work space in their
Truly getting to know places when traveling: There’s little doubt that there’s no more effective way to understand the
Paris’ ultimate third place for creatives: It took until the nearly the last day I was in Paris,
What does ‘being like Paris’ mean to a creative?: First of all, I don’t presume to have all the answers to
The humanistic character of Fribourg: One of Switzerland’s best-kept secrets, Fribourg is a town of 33,000 on
My favorite square in Lausanne, Switzerland: In the historic city center of Lausanne, Switzerland, an hour away from
Geneva’s pedestrian historic district: Geneva, Switzerland, central to United Nations relations (ie known as the ‘Peace
Crowdsourcing an urban creative center: We often ask creatives, ‘what’s missing in your city or town that
Church transformed into attainably-priced lofts: Sometimes a higher calling means living in a home one could actually
Sense of community rises in down economy: It’s a fairly common phenomenon, when things are bad, people seek camaraderie.
What cities are attracting Gen Y?: Via creative economist Richard Florida, Kevin Stolarick at the Martin Prosperity Institute
Developer to crowdsource creative downtowns: It’s not often that you hear a headline like that, and I’m
The Fed funds crowdsourced transit solutions: First we had the federal government funding crowdsourced placemaking solutions, and now
First Fed funded crowdsourced placemaking!: If even the federal government is funding a crowdsourced placemaking project, you
The first global crowdsourced placemaking chat: On May 27, 2009 a group of people committed to crowdsourced placemaking
Keeping creatives inspired after their ‘peak: Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the literary phenomenon Eat, Pray, Love, provided some
San Francisco’s new pedestrian plaza opens: Less than five months after announcing a plan to transform a San
A piazza in Philadelphia!: Real estate developer Bart Blatstein definitely has Rome on the brain. While
The 6 Myths of Creativity: The 6 Myths Of Creativity from a work perspective, via Fast Company
Opinions on going car-free in the U.S.: While it’s plenty viable in just about any other country, what’s the