The Atomized Library

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California College of the Arts students Duncan Young and Brett Walters produced a project they call "The Atomized Library. Read more »

Where Do Americans Share Transportation?

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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 »

Urban Farm + TV Studio = Reality Agriculture?

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An idea so wacky, it just might work. Read more »

At Home in Utopia

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A lost fragment of shareable history in America, presented by Independent Lens, a weekly series airing on PBS:

In the mid-1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish garment workers catapulted themselves out of the urban slums and ghettos by. Read more »

12 Nifty Ideas to Improve Your City

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Since our launch in October, Shareable.net has published lots of nifty DIY ideas for making cities more sociable, resilient, and sustainable. Read more »

New App for Cab Sharing Saves Money

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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 »

Designing the Shareable Restroom

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Here at Shareable.net, we've explored the design of public spaces like restaurants, cafes, offices, parks, and more. Read more »

Nice Ride Minnesota Picks Bixi

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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 »

Terraformed Rooftops

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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 »

How to Design Cities to Counter Racism

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In this nine-minute TED video, Nate Silver (primary author of the blog FiveThirtyEight) explores racial attitudes in the 2008 elections. Read more »
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