Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Supporting Food Truck Culture In New Orleans Chappell EllisonDec 01, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Marketing Healthy, Local Food Hurricane Katrina decreased access to healthy food by more than half in New Orleans. How to get fresh local food into the hands of those who need it?Alissa Walker05 Oct, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Making Bus Stops Dignified and Multifunctional Urban street corners can be dirty and desolate. They're also the places people wait for the bus. How one New Orleans group strived to improve them.Alissa Walker28 Sep, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: In San Francisco, City Officials and Designers Are Like Peas and Carrots After working with GOOD to produce three events pairing local designers with city officials, a group in San Francisco is expanding the program.Chappell Ellison28 Sep, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Growing A Local Food System for St. Louis A group of local food activist shows that sometimes, the best solutions come from changing city policy.Chappell Ellison25 Sep, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Building a Food Truck Movement Food is a central part of New Orleans culture, yet many food trucks have stalled in bureaucracy. How to launch a movement to support these businesses?Alissa Walker22 Sep, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Designing Guerrilla Bike Signage How to make a city's streets more comfortable for bikers? A team from New Orleans went ahead and installed their own bikeway signage.Alissa Walker14 Sep, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Transforming Urban Trail Wayfinding How to increase traffic on urban hiking and biking trails? Show how they fit into the larger transportation network with a transit-influenced map.Alissa Walker25 Aug, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Enhancing Transit Stations Dallas has the largest light rail system in the country by mile. Now how to turn the city's 55 stations into centers of social and economic activity?Alissa Walker19 Aug, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Encouraging Small Businesses Vacant storefronts keep a healthy block from feeling complete. How to bring small, local business activity to these under-utilized commercial spaces?Alissa Walker12 Aug, 2012
Articles Join GOOD Ideas for Cities at the Biennale in Venice, Italy Our GOOD Ideas for Cities project is representing the U.S. at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. Join us on August 29!Alissa Walker10 Aug, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: How CityPulse Plans to Put St. Louis On the Map Less than 5% of social impact concepts are ever implemented. One St. Louis collective shows how they're fighting those odds.Chappell Ellison10 Aug, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Making Walkability Fun How to encourage more people to walk? Start a series of neighborhood walking tours led by kids.Alissa Walker26 Jul, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Promoting Fresh Food Access Adults living in neighborhoods with no supermarkets have significantly higher obesity rates. How to increase their availability to healthy foods?Alissa Walker22 Jul, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Increasing Parental Involvement Parental involvement is just as important as a good teacher. How can a city implement a stronger connection between parents and schools?Alissa Walker20 Jul, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Developing Local Support for Portland's Public Schools 85% of people in central Portland have no children of school age. A hackathon uncovered ways to help connect those residents to their local school.Chappell Ellison15 Jul, 2012
Articles GOOD Ideas for Cities: Encouraging Energy-Saving Retrofits Most homeowners know their houses aren't performing to the best of their ability. How can a city motivate its residents to perform energy upgrades?Alissa Walker12 Jul, 2012