Tag: New Urbanism

This Week in Sharing: Alternatives for Cities and Currencies

By Kelly McCartney

04.04.13, 10:32am Comments (0)

This Week in Sharing explores alternative ideas for cities, public transportation, and currencies. Read more »

Four Days at Social Cities of Tomorrow Conference

By Yulia Kryazheva

02.21.12, 12:15pm Comments (0)

The Social Cities of Tomorrow Conference was a forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and experience between diverse participants, stakeholders, and experts. Read more »

Are Bike Lanes Expressways to Gentrification?

By Paul M. Davis

08.30.11, 10:51am Comments (23)

A plan to widen a Portland bike lane has reignited an ongoing debate over whether bicyclists serve as the front line of gentrification. Read more »

How to Build a Better Block

By Jason Roberts

08.02.11, 8:47am Comments (0)

The organizer of the first Better Block Project in Oak Cliff, Texas explains how to improve your neighborhood, grassroots-style. Read more »

Better Blocks: One of Many Urban Acupuncture Needles

By Kelly McCartney

08.01.11, 9:23am Comments (1)

Urban acupuncture is a new strategy for urban development that views cities as living, breathing organisms and pinpoints areas in need of repair Read more »

Hacking San Francisco During the Summer of Smart

By Paul M. Davis

06.10.11, 12:18pm Comments (0)

Featuring a series of hackathons, talks and mayoral debates, Summer of Smart is a project to find data-driven solutions to some of San Francisco’s most pressing social issues. Read more »

How to Design a Neighborhood for Happiness

By Jay Walljasper

03.25.11, 4:00pm Comments (12)

Biology is destiny, declared Sigmund Freud.
But if Freud were around today, he might say “design is destiny”—especially after taking a stroll through most American cities. Read more »

A Field Guide to the Commons

By Paul M. Davis

03.22.11, 9:38am Comments (0)

In the following interview, Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation and Shareable publisher Neal Gorenflo speak with Shareable cities columnist Jay Walljasper about his new book, All That We Share, fostering new lifestyles based on sharing, building mor. Read more »

Who Says Suburbs Can't Be Cool?

By Jay Walljasper

02.25.11, 7:15am Comments (3)

In a surprise last week, the Washington Post ran an article defending suburbs from the usual charges of being white, wealthy, boring, selfish, right-wing and environmentally-abominable places. Read more »