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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is wrapping up a tour of state school systems around the country. A blog post on the Atlanta Journal...
Everything about this story is awesome, especially the AFP headline, French towns on one-way street to head-on collision. The Parisian suburb...
In our cities, waste collection can be pretty wasteful itself. Garbage trucks have to make near constant trips to keep public trash bins from...
Our planet is a fragile ecosystem. To keep it in balance, we must figure out how to improve our urban transportation. B-Cycle in Denver,...
That's the primary conceit of Urban Mole, a conceptual project by designer Phillip Hermes. He suggests using the existing sewer infrastructure to...
Guest blogger Seth Shostak proposed painting our roads white a few days ago, creating somewhat of a hubbub. The idea of painting roofs white is a...
During a decade when Americans returned to cities for the first time in 50 years, it surprises me that "urban" can still be a code word for...
"Feral houses" and other indigenous species of the rust belt I live in the rust belt and have always found beauty in urban decay. So it will...
I don't know what it is about overhead greenery that's so compelling, but Oobject's list of 12 Stunning Rooftop Gardens, a collection of photos...
Crucial stepping stones on the pathway to a climate pact. There are plenty of folks who are calling December's climate treaty summit in...
David Byrne, whom we all know and love as the founder of the Talking Heads, muses on the perfect city in the Wall Street Journal and makes this...
New York is considering banning tobacco smoking in public places-part of a public health campaign called Take Care New York that, while a little...
This Friday, September 18, is Park(ing) Day, when people across the nation (and the world) turn metered parking spaces into temporary parks. The...
Bus travel in the United States often finds itself the victim of unwarranted negative stigma. But as we've mentioned before, by improving the...
The new White House Farmers' Market opened this morning. Michelle Obama had this to say: Farmers' markets are a simple but major ingredient in...
Humanity 101 Campaign Cities could create curricula and coursework on the subject of humanity and make it available at all public institutions...
Habitual Ritual Cities could help establish new rituals that are meaningful on a local level, and encourage and support the positive...
Are you a relatively educated, culturally with-it young person looking to live in a city with same? Well, here is your list of places to live....
We're going to have to get serious about urban infill if we're going to make our cities sustainable. Vancouver had a great idea along these lines....