In this fantastic and helpful infographic, artist Martha Kang McGill reveals how the people of eight major U.S. cities get to work, based on numbers from the 2008 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey. Read more »
Since our launch in October, Shareable.net has published lots of nifty DIY ideas for making cities more sociable, resilient, and sustainable. Read more »
An article in the Seattle Times about cab-sharing from Seattle-Tacoma Airport got me wondering why more cities don't facilitate this money-saving and ecologically sound form of transportation. Read more »
From the Bike-sharing Blog via Nice Ride Minnesota, more evidence of the growth of bikesharing systems globally. Note that some of the funding for the service comes from a large health insurance company:
MINNEAPOLIS (Feb. Read more »
From the New Urbanism video series: "Terreform, a nonprofit architecture collective transforms the rooftop of a building in downtown Brooklyn into a shelter and farm for urban refugees--people displaced by the mortgage crisis. Read more »
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