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Times Square goes car free – permanently?: I think we have definitely hit the pedestrian walk tipping point. First

San Francisco’s busiest street considers going car-free: Fitting with the previous entry, ‘People over cars’ begins to hit mainstream

People over cars’ begins to hit mainstream media: “It’s Time for Cities to Favor People, Not Cars” isn’t a headline

GOOD’s worldwide subway comparison: What better way to understand how the world’s transit systems compare than

Massive retail ‘market correction’ underway: One can look at the economic downturn as a depression, or one

Hint of crowdsourcing attainably-priced homes: There seems to be some fairly strong evidence that the price of
Signs of a shift to a more sustainable creative economy: Who would have thought we’d be seeing ads like these from Fortune

The federal vision for places creatives want?…: President Obama, from the Fort Myers town hall meeting on February 10,

Boston attempts to preserve artist hoods: It’s not easy to resist gentrification, but at least the City of

The CoolTown ‘tag cloud’ goes ‘public: Over 1400 entries later, I thought it’d be interesting to post what

Creatives often prefer ‘projects’ over ‘jobs: Some pretty heady words, I know, but for many creatives, the last

How to’ for university students crowdsourcing creative cities: In the previous entry we looked at the importance and logic of
