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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...
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...
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
Crowdrise: The Social Network with a Purpose
Like most successful fundraising ideas, the social networking site Crowdrise started with Maasai warriors and Edward Norton. “Edward was running...
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...
Culture
OurGoods: New York's New Barter Network
OurGoods is a new barter network for New York creative types that helps users trade the skills or stuff they have for the ones they seek.
Access Granted: Unlocking New York's Secrets
Getting a key to the city has long been an honor reserved for a town's most venerable citizens. In other words, it's long been a pretty stupid...
Culture
A Girl Story: The Ending Is Up to You
When an organization asks for a donation, it’s basically making a claim about storytelling: Your help can change a bad ending. What if a...
Culture
Starbox: Where Our Obsession with Fame Meets Mysterious Public Art
Good science is all about cutting out variables—so what happens if that approach is applied to celebrity? The playwright Mattie Brickman and the...
News
Elevating the Electric Car
There are many bad reasons a good idea—the electric car—still hasn't gained traction. Among the thornier issues has been The Charge Problem—or...
Environment
Pollen Bots
Seasonal allergy sufferers, rejoice! Japanese scientists have deployed an army of anthropomorphic pollen sensors across the country in an...
Outlier 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...
Culture
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...
Culture
Can Youth Baseball Save a Remote Chinese Town from Segregation?
Anyone writing about ethnic strife in China’s remote Xinjiang province has an obvious opening anecdote: Han Chinese in the region run their...
