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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...