Tag: New Urbanism

Are Bike Lanes Expressways to Gentrification?

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08.30.11, 9:51am 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

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08.02.11, 7:47am 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

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08.01.11, 8:23am 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

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06.10.11, 11:18am 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

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03.25.11, 3:00pm 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

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03.22.11, 8:38am 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?

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02.25.11, 6:15am 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 »

Gary Hustwit Brings Urban Design to the Big Screen

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02.22.11, 6:41pm Comments (0)
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit makes documentaries about design that you don’t need to be a design geek to love. Read more »

This Week in Sharing

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10.07.10, 10:41am Comments (1)
There are never enough hours in the day to cover everything worth sharing, so here are some stories we didn't have time to explore:


The Seattle Times reports on colleges successfully using car-sharing to cut down on camp. Read more »

Crypto-Forests and Guerrilla Gardening

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07.08.10, 1:17pm Comments (2)
My imagination was ignited a few weeks ago when I came across a post on BLDGBLOG about crypto-forests: forgotten patches of urban land where nature has taken its course. Read more »
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