Articles How to Create a Network of Green Bikeways in Your City With a little green paint, streets can be redesigned for the growing number of people choosing two wheels over four.Kristin Smith01 Sep, 2013
Articles How Teenage Girls With Power Tools Transformed a Neighborhood It was a scorchingly hot Tuesday afternoon last summer on a rough corner in South Chicago. Despite the heat, and despite it being the time of...Alex Gilliam06 Aug, 2013
Articles Four Designs for Resilient Neighborhoods After Sandy After Hurricane Sandy tore through the Rockaways in Queens, New York, nonprofits, developers, and the City of New York joined to launch a...Adele Peters30 Jul, 2013
Articles Swapping Hot Cheetos for Whole Wheat Bread: A Corner Store Redesign In Philadelphia, the poorest and most obese big city in the nation, nearly half the kids in low-income neighborhoods shop at corner stores twice...Peter Lehner14 Jul, 2013
Articles Taking Down a Freeway to Reconnect Neighborhoods Taking down a freeway—as radical as that sounds—is not a new idea. Paris, Milwaukee, Seoul and New York are among the cities who’ve removed them.Allison Arieff30 Jun, 2013
Articles Making it Real: A Floating Pool for the East River Picture yourself on a 95-degree summer day in New York City, the air so humid that the minute you walk outside you're sticky by the time you...Adele Peters23 Jun, 2013
Articles How to Transform a Vacant Lot into a Community Garden If you look around your neighborhood, you might see some land—a corner of your local park, or a school’s sunny side yard, for example—that could...Heather Wooten21 Jun, 2013
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