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A few weeks ago, non-profit American Forests released their list of the 10 Best Cities for Urban Forests.[read more]

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For talent migration, tolerance doesn't matter. The idea that London is a winner in the vote-with-feet competition because of its cosmopolitan disposition is amusing. No city is immune to parochial attitudes:But London in 2012, like most other global cities, is in significant flux, much less beholden to sepia-tinged notions of what it...[read more]

According to this infographic from Denver bikes, four of five dollars you spend on your car leave your local economy.  To keep 130k transportation dollars in your local economy your city would need to reduce car ownership by 15k cars.  Which could mean 15k more bike owners, and bike money stays 100 percent local which makes...[read more]

From Kickstarter.com, a project for social bicycles: We need your help to introduce a flexible, scalable, and affordable bike sharing system that makes cycling more accessible and interactive. Over the last few years, bike sharing has spread across the world and become a new transportation alternative in cities such as Paris, London,...[read more]

Is investing in the arts, as it relates to placemaking, profitable? Try this quote, coming from a real estate development organization (ULI), “There is a growing body of evidence that thoughtful investment in arts and culture initiatives can generate significant economic benefits for cities large and small. Looking at data collected...[read more]

  Having already begun a comprehensive energy and environmental retrofit of a key part of Denver’s Lower Downtown, the nonprofit organization Living City Block is now looking to do the same in a neighborhood in the heart of Washington, DC.  It is a fantastic project that stands to become a model for the greening of mixed-use...[read more]

GOOD magazine and 3rd Generation Prius teamed up for their Roadmap to Harmony project to produce this video about B-Cycle, a bikesharing service in Denver, Co. that we’ve already mentioned here, here, and here. The premise of the video is about “how can we clean up urban transportation?” The idea is that bikesharing services like B-...[read more]

SourceBy GregI spent the past few days at a conference in Denver, Colorado. And, I’ll tell you, that city impressed the heck out of me. It’s a medium-sized city (just under 600,000 residents), and you can walk across its downtown in about twenty minutes. While the scale is much smaller than my hometown of Philadelphia, Denver seemed to...[read more]