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Build This Tiny DIY House and Transform Your City

Brought to you by BMW Guggenheim Lab. Could you stay in a one square meter house? Read about the home that can be put anywhere.

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Project: Call for Ideas - How Would You Transform a Public Place?

Brought to you by BMW Guggenheim Lab. Do you have a great idea of how to make a public urban space more comfortable? If so, submit your idea now.

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Confronting Comfort: BMW Guggenheim Lab Opens

Brought to you by BMW Guggenheim Lab. The lab opens in Berlin today, calling on city residents to confront urban comfort and inspire change.

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Students and Teachers Join Forces for Social Change in East L.A.

Roosevelt High is hosting a day-long conference with the goal of catalyzing change in Boyle Heights and beyond.

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How to Start an Urban Farm in a Post-Industrial City

Youngstown, Ohio, may have shrunk, but its urban farms are growing.

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Kickstarter for Neighborhoods Brings Crowdfunding's Potential to Urban Renewal

Spacehive is a London-based company that's helping community centers, parks, and parade organizers get the funding to change their communities.

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In New Orleans, Net-Zero Energy Homes Go on the Market

More than five years ago, Global Green USA started working to help New Orleans build back greener.

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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky

A design for a geodesic dome could allow for affordable rooftop aquaponics.

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Dumpster Pinhole Cameras Capture a City's Hidden Side

Sanitation workers who are also amateur photographers are documenting the city they keep clean.

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'Spaces to Ramble': Why Cities Need More Central Parks

An interactive walk explores what a space like Central Park can provide to city dwellers.

A Former Chicago Meatpacking Plant Becomes a Self-Sustaining Vertical Farm

Once dedicated to producing red meat for the masses, the building will become a zero-waste producer of more sustainable foods.

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If You Build Bike Lanes, They Will Ride

It doesn't matter if your city is hot or cold, wet or dry, young or old: If you want more bike commuters, build more bike lanes. Science says so!

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Kulturpark: An Abandoned Amusement Park Becomes a Public Art Space

This June, a group of creatives based in Berlin plans to sustainably revamp and reestablish an abandoned amusement park called “Kulturpark.”

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What Will It Take to Change Commuters' Behavior in Los Angeles?

A lot of small nudges could add up to the big shift L.A. needs.

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Can America's Largest Green Business Development Spark a Movement?

An attempt to build the country's largest sustainable shopping center morphed into an experiment in green business development.

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At SXSW, an Electric Bike Offers a Path to Conscious Commuting

Conscious Commuter is showing off a fully collapsible, electric bicycle at this year's SXSW Green Zone