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Cities
Intermission: The Guerrilla Gardener
See a "guerilla gardener" attack some potholes and make the world a little more beautiful.
Design
Can Manhattan's High Line Be Replicated? Several Cities Are Trying
Every week, it seems, a different city is pitching its old steel rails as the “next” High Line.
Education
Can Harvard's New Innovation Lab Crank Out Entrepreneurs?
The lab of fresh ideas and collaboration is set to open this fall.
Lifestyle
Atwater Village Farm Lets Neighbors Invest in Their Own Corner Store
Imagine a true neighborhood market where you can connect not only with local food and farmers, but also with your neighbors.
Education
New York Public Library Leaving 25,000 Copies of Centennial Book in Public Places
The special centennial book, featuring pieces from Stephen Colbert among others, will be left around New York for people to pick up and share.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Dancing at the Dinner Table and Fighting in the Streets
Architecture and urbanism blog Deconcrete examines how our place settings turn dining into free jazz or classical ballet.
Cities
Placemaking 101: Ten Steps to Transform a Public Space
Learn how to bring vacant parking lots and lonely street corners back to life with these tips from Project for Public Spaces.
Design
Superman, Incredible Hulk Storm L.A.'s City Hall
A protest by the characters who charge money for photos on Hollywood Boulevard opens up a discussion about public space. Curbed LA
Environment
An Industrial Port Town Gets a Huge New Park
With the success of New York's High Line park, other cities are looking for new opportunities to create green public space. And Wilmington, a...
Design
The GOOD 100: Public Ad Campaign
Ad Hominem: Jordan Seiler of Public Ad Campaign is cleaning up the streets. Advertisements are ubiquitous in American cities. They seem to grow...
Design
The GOOD 100: Jason Eppink
There's No Such Thing as Bad Publicity Public space belongs to everyone: you, people you know, people you don't know, and people you'll...
Cities
The GOOD 100: Cities
The New American Dream During a decade when Americans returned to cities for the first time in 50 years, it surprises me that "urban" can still...
