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You Are Where You Live: What Makes a Perfect Neighborhood?
Richard Florida is one of the world’s best-known urban theorists. In his 2002 book The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida explored how...
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Ghost Town: The Abandoned Suburb of California City
Revisiting one of America’s most unusual neighborhoods: the abandoned suburb of California City. Abandoned starter houses taken over by...
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Street Scene: Great Neighborhood Street Art
Even the best and most striking street art can exist with almost no connection to the walls on which it appears. Some artists, however, take...
Design
Intermission: Making the Neighborhoods Issue Cover
The team of right-brainers over at Public School made one of the four covers for our Neighborhoods Issue. Here's how:If you're curious about the...
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Community by Design
Building homes for the neighborhoods that need them most Raised on the wholesome interactions on Sesame Street, many Americans still dream...
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Wiped Off the Hypothetical Map
Imagine the cobblestone streets of New York City’s SoHo neighborhood uprooted and replaced by a six-lane elevated highway; not a pretty sight....
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The Case Against Fake "Walkable Urbanism"
If You Lived Here, You'd Be Urban By Now: The case against a "walkable urbanism" that is neither walkable nor urban. In December, an...
Culture
The Neighborhoods Issue Cover Project
We recently teamed up with Society 6, a new platform for artists to promote and sell their works, to find four awesome artists, illustrators, and...
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Model Town
GOOD imagines the perfect neighborhood History and science fiction have taught us that there’s no such thing as a perfect society. The term...
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Singing on the Street Corner
There are an endless number of songs about cities: The recordings of “Sweet Home Chicago” and “New York, New York” could fill a...
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Locals Only
For all that binds us together as Americans, we are still a nation of distinct states and regions, each with its own quirks. Regional...
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What's in a Name?
Nowadays, neighborhood sobriquets are designed by marketing gurus to make an area more appealing. In 100 years, that story will be forgotten,...
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Plots of Land
GOOD’s favorite fictional neighborhoods Appears in: Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck. The neighborhood is arguably the main character in this...
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Your Reputation Precedes You
Archetypes and stereotypes in a few of the nation's (in)famous neighborhoods. AKA Bed-Stuy Archetypal Architecture Brownstones...
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Hey, Neighbor
Issue 19 of GOOD Magazine is all about neighborhoods. Subscribers should be receiving it in the second week of April, and we'll be posting several...
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A Borrower and a Lender Be
Could the threat of a peaking oil supply lead to a hyperlocal revolution? A group of Portlanders thinks so.Normally, when you need compost for...
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Returning to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
An appreciation of Fred RogersOn the continuum of awesome compound words, “make-believe” ranks very near the top. I learned the term courtesy of...
