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Detroit Future: - I Am Young Detroit - Kicking off in Detroit, I Am Young America is a
‘Innovation Districts’ are the heart of our economic growth: Since this blog’s first articles in 2003, the vision has been about
Pedestrian Streets in the U.S. 2014: While there are several dozen entries on car free places (presented in
Apple and Burning Man set car-free precedents: First of all, yes, Apple’s campus is an isolated spaceship completely disconnected
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term action for long-term change: Why wait for neighborhood change when you can do it yourself? Citizens
Learning from the Burning Man principles in our cities: This is the ultimate demonstration of crowdsourced placemaking in the world: 70,000
A model for crowdplacemaking is… in Vegas?: What happens when you take a crowdsourced pop-up city of 60,000 people
The economic benefits to businesses in walkable communities: Walkable is good for business. A November 2013 report, Business Performance in Walkable
Young adults, community building, lead downtown revitalization: Let’s try something different in this post. Because I can’t find something
: Like this! It was just a matter of time before Facebook began
Crowdsourcing a pop-up city of 60,000 in the desert: One week, it’s a vast desert revealing zero signs of any kind
Crowdsourced placemaking goes regional in Long Island: While a number of communities are taking on the crowdsourced placemaking of their downtowns,