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Movin' On Up: Iconic New York Statue Gets Penthouse Apartment

Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi re-imagines 13-foot sculpture of Christopher Columbus by building a living room around it.

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Occupied Ground: Parklets in Former Street Parking Coming to Los Angeles

The parklet movement is really starting to catch on with a pilot program in auto obsessed LA next.

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Better Block: Bottom-Up Urban Reboot In a Single Weekend

In September, The Better Block is taking on Detroit for two days, activating a block's vacant space into a public hub filled with pop-up shops.

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Meter Made: Park a Tree Like a Car and You've Got a Parklet

In Milan, a mobile park and Wi-Fi hub takes over spaces intended for Fiats.

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GOOD Ideas for Cities: Creating Pride for Public Parks

Parks are often taken for granted. How can cities get residents to support their parks on an ongoing basis?

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Intermission: The Guerrilla Gardener

See a "guerilla gardener" attack some potholes and make the world a little more beautiful.

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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.

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Can Harvard's New Innovation Lab Crank Out Entrepreneurs?

The lab of fresh ideas and collaboration is set to open this fall.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Placemaking 101: Ten Steps to Transform a Public Space

Have a vacant parking lot or lonely street corner that needs a little love? Learn how to bring it back to life with these tips from Project for Public Spaces.

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....

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...