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Submissions: Six-Word Motto for New Orleans
In our latest magazine, the New Orleans Issue, we asked readers to send us a six-word motto that captures New Orleans in this moment. Our goal...
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Forget Twitter, Try Stickers: Low-Tech Project Inspires Community Engagement in New Orleans
Candy Chang's civic engagement project has captured plenty of hearts and minds with the use of decidedly low-tech stickers and Sharpies.
Cities
"Before I Die..." An Abandoned Building Transformed Into a Public Bucket List
The artist Candy Chang has transformed an abandoned house in New Orleans into a public forum where people declare what they want to do before dying.
Education
Ten Commencement Speakers You Wish You'd Had
These ten speakers inspired but still kept it real with their audiences, making their graduation speeches memorable years after they were given.
News
Transparency: The Cities Where Sprawl Makes the Commute the Worst
What creates traffic jams isn't more cars and fewer highways, it's sprawl. See our infographic on the longest sprawl-induced commutes in America.
Design
"I Wish This Was": Stickers Imagine an Improved New Orleans
Candy Chang's new project, I Wish This Was, uses fill-in-the-blank stickers to let residents of New Orleans provide ad hoc civic input.
Design
Intermission: New Orleans's Abandoned Six Flags
Six Flags New Orleans closed for Hurricane Katrina five years ago and never reopened.
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Picture Show: Post-Katrina Graffiti on the Walls of New Orleans
Photographs from the new book, Destroy This Memory, by Richard Misrach.
Education
New Orleans and the School Choice Experiment
The Libertarians over at Reason put together a video on the reform of the New Orleans public schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005....
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New Media: Citizen Journalists and Bloggers in New Orleans
How an influential group of citizen journalists and bloggers are keeping New Orleans honest. This article originally appeared in GOOD Issue 020:...
Education
Yellow School Bus on the Loose: A Cross-Country Trip to Save Public Schools
Four young entrepreneurs are on a 10,000-mile journey to learn how they can best help schools before giving money.
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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.
News
Meet the Young, Black Entrepreneurs Remaking New Orleans
New Orleans' renaissance isn't just due to educated white kids. It's also thanks to young black professionals from around the country.
News
Eight Good Things to Do This Weekend
Looking to pitch in and make a difference this weekend? From New Orleans to Seattle, from polar bear plunges to dandelion wine, we got you covered.
Education
Mind the Gap: Big Easy Ramblings
An inner-city schoolteacher visits post-Katrina New Orleans with his students. Greetings from New Orleans, where I’ve come with two of my...
Design
Ads for Imaginary Buildings Highlight Lack of Real Development
Hypothetical Development places architectural renderings for imaginary, never-gonna-happen places on vacant, dilapidated buildings in New Orleans.
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Plan B: Grading New Orleans's Readiness for Climate Change
With geography and climate change working against it, New Orleans prepares for the future. GOOD assesses its resiliency plan. This article...
