Investment

Fundrise - How it works
Fundrise pioneers crowd-invested placemaking: Just seven months ago we were outlining the inevitability of crowd-invested placemaking.
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Crowd-invested placemaking… the next step: What is crowd-invested placemaking and why is it the next step? This
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Locavesting, crowdfunding local businesses on the rise: We’re reaching the tipping point where our investment and tax dollars are
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Housing & Lofts

Drivers of Apartment Living in Canada for the Twenty-First Century
For Gen Y, it’s not about the dream home, but the dream ‘hood: With the Gen Y generation, the largest demographic in U.S. history with
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Vision for downtown Leander, Texas by Gateway Planning Group
Developers favoring walkable over car-oriented 3 to 1: We know the demand for walkable communities is there, but what about
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Chris's Furniture Tetris, Apartment Therapy's Small Cool Apartment Contest winner, Houston, Texas
Small Cool Apartment 2010′ winners: Moving into smaller homes hasn’t only become a financial necessity, it’s fast
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Economic Gardening

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$ leaving Bristol, Connecticut as it is today, in the future if things don't change, and in the future with a triple-bottom-line mindset
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Creative economy, mega-region in North America

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‘Innovation Districts’ are the heart of our economic growth Since this blog’s first articles in 2003, the vision has been about placemaking for the knowledge economy – see
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Pedestrian Streets in the U.S. 2014 While there are several dozen entries on car free places (presented in the Wikipedia’s list of car-free places in
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Apple and Burning Man set car-free precedents First of all, yes, Apple’s campus is an isolated spaceship completely disconnected from the rest of the community. That
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Tactical Urbanism: Short-term action for long-term change Why wait for neighborhood change when you can do it yourself? Citizens are taking into their own hands at
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Crowdsourced Placemaking

Tactical Urbanism: Short-term action for long-term change Why wait for neighborhood change when you can do it yourself? Citizens are taking into their own hands at improving the livability of their neighborhoods and cities, investing in demonstrations of what a vacant
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Learning from the Burning Man principles in our cities This is the ultimate demonstration of crowdsourced placemaking in the world: 70,000 people building a city in the middle of the desert for 8 days each year, and 8 days only, with no cars,
Posted by On Feb 20, 2014
A model for crowdplacemaking is… in Vegas? What happens when you take a crowdsourced pop-up city of 60,000 people with no cars, internet or cell phones, and look to apply it’s resulting principles to a permanent, existing, but disinvested downtown? You get
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Cooltown Top 20

Study: Millennials lead trend to walkable communities
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The actual headlines based on a new U.S. PIRG
People would crowdsource piazzas if they had the chance...
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If given the opportunity to crowdsource a vision for
Bristol's 2-year crowdsourced placemaking success story
Barley Vine gastro pub overlooking the annual Pop-Up Piazza Festival, Bristol, CT
This is a follow up story to “Bristol crowdsources