Monthly Archive:: May 2007
The first, and only, green mall: Maybe I should start an entire category of “it was just a
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China, Great Britan making creative class waves: When looking for creative class benchmarks in culture, placemaking and policy, it’s
How green is your neighborhood?: A few months ago we wrote that neighborhoods can now be green
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Smallest coolest apartments 2007: Each year the innovative folks at Apartment Therapy award the smallest, coolest
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Transparency tyranny’ will result in better places: What is transparency tyranny? From Trendwatching.com: “Old economy fog is clearing: no
Key to attainable housing? Combining multiple elements: Nowadays, one affordable housing strategy isn’t enough to make a difference. You
Land trusts preserving attainable housing as well as wilderness: Land trusts, like the Trust for Public Land, are widely known for
Main streets go virtual to serve local community: We all know Amazon.com serves the world’s goods, but how about if
You can ‘co-own’ a sports team, a band, a movie… and soon buildings: MySpace, Wikipedia, YouTube… are all making money hand over fist for its
Beatnik-inspired housing: The Jack Kerouac Lofts: What are the words often associated with Beta Generation writer Jack Kerouac?
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Reinventing the ‘burbs, sort of: The civic leaders of St. Louis Park, an inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis,
WSJ – ‘Animal House Meets the Empty Nest: The Wall Street Journal article, Animal House Meets the Empty Nest, sums
DC mayor proclaims shared workplace with its own day: Can a co-workplace; community and collaboration space for entrepreneurs and independents, be
Going for the gold in green development: It’s not easy being green. Greenbridge, a 104,000 s.f. urban infill community
Cities celebrating pedestrians in a big way each week: El Paso, Texas is a big city (pop. 600,000) without much buzz
Durham turns the corner from industrial to information economy: Yesterday’s entry profiled how a French town evolved from the industrial age
How a French town modernized and kept its heritage: Roubaix is a typical small city in Northern France that thrived in
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Beta community to own profit-based shares: For all that time you invest in helping choose the next American
KC revitalizing its historic music district with some jazzy style: Baseball and jazz – two distinctly American traditions that have defined the
Development industry says, “Building green is here to stay”: Last week the leading real estate developers around the world gathered at
Face-face social networking on the rise in condos: We all know emerging populations are migrating to social networking websites by
A national model for arts as economic development: How do you attract artists into a neighborhood/district, then keep them from