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Enter the RealPlaces Dollar Hollar Design Contest!

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No Panaceas! Elinor Ostrom Talks with Fran Korten

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This interview is cross-posted with permission from YES! Magazine.
Elinor Ostrom was an unusual choice for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics. For one thing, she is the first woman to receive the prize. Her Ph.D. Read more »

My Shareable Morning

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Riding to Shareable World Domination Headquarters this morning, I twice spotted signs of a more shareable world. Read more »

Real People, Real Places

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Ah, North Beach—San Francisco birthplace of the Beats. Historical hotspot of American intellectual counterculture. Read more »

Should Small Cities Have Free Public Transit?

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When we think of public transit, we often think of bigger cities like New York and Chicago. But how can smaller cities design better transit systems? I think one of the best ways to do this is to simply build fareless systems. Read more »

Adults on Bikes

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Over a hundred years ago, H.G. Wells famously quipped, “When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. Read more »

Can We Design Cities for Happiness?

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Happiness itself is a commons to which everyone should have equal access.
That’s the view of Enrique Peñalosa, who is not a starry-eyed idealist given to abstract theorizing. Read more »

Raise My Taxes!

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This morning I attended part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board meeting, where they considered a proposal to increase fares and cut service--again. Read more »

Imagining Streets Without Cars

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"I thought you might get a kick out of a photo side project I've been working on called Narrow Streets: Los Angeles, where I head out to locations in LA (some requested by readers), snap pix of streets, and then narrow them down in Photoshop,&qu. Read more »

Bill and Ted's Excellent Time Travel Infographic

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We're told by physicists that travel back in time is probably impossible. But that hasn't stopped people from imagining time travel scenarios. Read more »
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