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Cities
I Am Here: Billboards Against Homelessness
Panhandling's major deficiency is that it rarely supplies passersby with enough information to want to give money. A person is suffering, but who...
Design
Treehotel: Sweden's Dreamlike Treehouse Fantasies
Sweden's imaginative hotel takes childhood dreams of the ultimate treehouse to new heights.
Cities
Saving Cities Solves the Rust Belt Brain Drain
Cleveland’s uphill battle for its reputation has been going on for years—at least since 1969, the year its Cuyahoga River infamously caught fire...
Design
Build the House in the Hill
Like so many great design schemes, Christian Müller's idea for Villa Vals walked the line between intuitive and loony. You want to build a house...
Culture
Contrail Turns Your Bike into a Paintbrush
The Contrail bike accessory draws colorful lines of chalking fluid on asphalt behind your bike-producing some literal street art and promoting safety.
Issue 010
Corner Store Cornucopia
Many hope Romano's Grocery Many will become a national model for the healthy corner store.
Lifestyle
A New Kind of Food Truck Brings the Farm to the City
The promise of a typical CSA is to bring a taste of the farm into town; hauling it around town is another matter. A new mobile service from...
Environment
El Activista
Mexican wrestler El Hijo de Santo might be tough in the ring, but you should see him pet a whale.
Design
LOOK: Shopping Cart Becomes Housing Start
Los Angeles has the largest homeless population in the country. In a city where people spend so much time in their cars, it’s a population that...
Culture
Paper-Feet: Sustainable Sandals that Don't Cost an Arm or a Leg
The trend of barely-more-than-barefoot shoes has involved some cognitive dissonance: They haven't tended to be priced that way. For Jimmy Tomczak,...
Issue 008
Ad Censor
Jason Eppink's Pixelator is an "unauthorized video-art performance collaboration" with the New York MTA and Clear Channel.
Culture
Bomb the Blight Brings a Serious Arsenal to Seed-Bombing
The artist Tommy Wilson wants to seed-bomb every state in the nation.
Cities
Greenaid Places Seed-Bombs in Vintage Gumball Machines
When you’re bequeathed several vintage gumball machines, the gift comes with a mandate to do something creative. But what? That was the dilemma...
Design
Fake Realtors Imagine Artistic Uses for Neglected Buildings
New work from Hypothetical Developments continues to advertise imaginary buildings and call attention to what New Orleans lacks.
Cities
Shop Globally, Bank Locally
For most of us, choosing a bank usually comes down to two things: who has the most ATMs and how close is the nearest branch. We might consider...
Cities
Make Believe: Renovating Storefronts and Re-imagining a City
Step back from the cliché, and you can hear multiple meanings in the phrase "make believe." There's our familiar sense of something imaginary, but...
Culture
Poets Plaza: An Outdoor Living Room for Writers
Plenty of bookish neighborhoods yap about their literary history, but few have written literature into their physical landscape like San...
Design
Alpha One Labs: Where Creativity Mothers Inventions
One disadvantage of being an adult is you have fewer chances to sit around in rooms inventing strange gadgets. One advantage is that, should you...
