Alissa Walker

Alissa Walker thinks The Decade in Literature is good.

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GOOD Design NYC: The Big Apple, Better

Earlier this month, we hosted a double header of events in New York City, GOOD Design NYC I and II. In partnership with our friends at Nau, who...

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The Decade in Design

Ten years of Apple, starchitects, and design for change. Being a designer means being able to not only predict the future, but to have a hand in...

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Alissa Walker thinks The Decade in Culture is good.

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Alissa Walker thinks Better Bikeways: Getting Rolling with Improved... is good.

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Empowering Teens to Green the Food Desert

How students in Los Angeles are helping foment a healthy eating revolution in their own neighborhoods. This Thanksgiving, when you dashed into...

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Join Us for GOOD Design NYC: December 1 and 3

In a few weeks, we're bringing together two of our favorite things-New York City and GOOD Design-again. That's right, New York was actually the...

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A School That Deserves Extra Credit

What the educational outpost on the site of the old Ambassador Hotel can teach Los Angeles about learning, public space, and...

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Welcome to the (Recently-rebranded) Neighborhood

Welcome to the (Recently-rebranded) Neighborhood

I just spent a week in New York spitting out the portmanteau poetry of urban branding. SoHo! NoHo! TriBeCa! NoLiTa!-all innocuous neighborhood...

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GOOD Design SF: Solving City Problems, Creatively

GOOD Design SF: Solving City Problems, Creatively

Last Wednesday, about 200 of San Francisco's most active and engaged citizens gathered at SPUR's new Urban Center for GOOD Design SF, one of the...

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Grand Rapids Masters the Art of Urban Engagement

Grand Rapids Masters the Art of Urban Engagement

Everyone told me they had never seen the streets of Grand Rapids, Michigan so crowded at 3 p.m. on a Wednesday. I watched in awed agreement as...

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Join Us for GOOD Design SF on September 29 in San Francisco

Join Us for GOOD Design SF on September 29 in San Francisco

We know-and we suspect you do as well-that design can solve problems. And what better problems to solve than the ones that face our own cities?...

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A Design Revolution Hits the Road

A Design Revolution Hits the Road

The first time I met Emily Pilloton was a year-and-a-half ago, at a grungy bar in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood, when I was in town to cover...

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Alissa Walker thinks LA's Farmers' Market Celebration Is Thursday,... is good.

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Portland Creatives Find New Ways to Work Together

Portland Creatives Find New Ways to Work Together

Portland, Oregon-the misty evergreen Shangri-La for the young, the creative, and the progressive-has an interesting problem. Its miles of bike...

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Putting Urban Planning In the Hands of the People

Putting Urban Planning In the Hands of the People

Last spring I moderated a panel at GOOD's offices here in Los Angeles. about public transportation and the community. As discussions about public...

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Alissa Walker thinks America's "Favorite Farmers Markets" is good.

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