Gordon Douglas

DIY Urban Design, from Guerrilla Gardening to Yarn Bombing

DIY Urban Design, from Guerrilla Gardening to Yarn Bombing

Clever citizens are repurposing phone booths, installing public furniture, and painting new bike lanes. It's DIY urban design, and it's taking off.

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The Back Garden Project: Nothing Gold Can Stay

The Back Garden Project: Nothing Gold Can Stay

This is the 14th and final post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a...

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The Back Garden Project: Metal Workers Wanted!

The Back Garden Project: Metal Workers Wanted!

This is the 13th post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: Surviving Summer

The Back Garden Project: Surviving Summer

This is the 13th post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: Produce Report

The Back Garden Project: Produce Report

This is the 11th post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: Landscape Design and Garden Infrastructure

The Back Garden Project: Landscape Design and Garden Infrastructure

This is the 10th post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: New Plans, New Plants

The Back Garden Project: New Plans, New Plants

This is the ninth post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: Native Plants Grow in Brooklyn (But Good Luck Buying Them)

The Back Garden Project: Native Plants Grow in Brooklyn (But Good Luck Buying Them)

This is the eighth post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: On Soil

The Back Garden Project: On Soil

This is the seventh post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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Recycled Wood Planting Box Returträträdgårdlåda

Recycled Wood Planting Box Returträträdgårdlåda

This is the sixth post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: Planting Time

The Back Garden Project: Planting Time

This is the fifth post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: The Best Laid Plans

The Back Garden Project: The Best Laid Plans

This is the fourth post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: Trash!

The Back Garden Project: Trash!

This is the third post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: The Lay of the Land

This is the second post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

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The Back Garden Project: An Introduction

The Back Garden Project: An Introduction

When I moved in to my current apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, a run-down but decent-sized 1.5 bedroom on Dekalb Avenue, one of the biggest...

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The Back Garden Project

Good is: turning a trash-filled lot (my building's backyard in Brooklyn) into a welcoming, sustainable, and well-designed urban garden...

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re: American Public Transit Lags Behind graphic

re: http://www.good.is/?p=15615Well Go(o)d knows I love me some mass transit and some quality visual display of quantitative information, but I...

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Faces of hope on spaces of poverty

Some fantastic public art with a purpose from the favelas of Brazil (and the slums of Africa). An artist (or, it's unclear, perhaps a collective)...

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