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How Many Billboards
It's never been untrue, exactly, to say that Los Angeles-a driving city with plenty to sell-raises the billboard to the level of art form. Now...
Read & DiscussHayes Valley: A Former Freeway Turns into a Farm
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake left many of San Francisco's urban freeways structurally unsound. (Back then, there were many, carving up the...
Read & DiscussRide for the Trees: Biking from Paraguay to America
As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay, Samuel Hagler was stationed 12 kilometers from the San Rafael Reserve, a...
Read & DiscussDiamond Lil: A Busload of Sustainable Dining
Restaurateur Kai Schoenhals is a believer in high-concept dining and a self-professed "public transportation junkie." So when he caught wind...
Read & DiscussSunday's Church Is Saturday's Night Club
Bertie Pearson knows it seems suspicious. A church hosting great music and art on Saturday night-that isn't making the soft sell for Sunday...
Read & DiscussOutlier Bikewear Suits the City and the Office
Dressing for a bike commute usually means picking between trip and destination: mangle or sweat through work clothes; ride in performance apparel...
Read & DiscussBrooklyn Typology: The Electronic Architecture of a Living City
Neil Freeman is an artist and an urban planner, but he might best be described as an organist, pulling the right stops on blasts of data to reveal...
Read & DiscussInvest in Me, Take My Equity
Venture capitalists love to talk about "investing in people"-but what if they meant it literally? A new funding concept launched by social...
Read & DiscussThe Book Liberator: Taking a Page from Every Book, Literally
You're forgiven if you've never thought of a book as being stuck inside its own covers. A few years ago, TV still lived in a box (which was still...
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Writing on the Wall
The urban landscape is becoming something of a Post-it note for anonymous poets. Written on the City documents this new "message graffiti."
Read & DiscussArt Market
Two New York designers are providing artists with a way to get life's necessities by simply painting them.
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