In Who’s Your City, urban economist Richard Florida notes a significant result of his Place and Happiness Survey; of five major categories that had a correlation with one’s satisfaction with […]

Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted here. Congratulations to Jeff for his published work! Teleworking (also known as telecommuting) has taken flight as a global trend. During July of 2002, […]

Admittedly, I am a nerd. In my spare time, I type key words into ArchDaily and find interesting projects, partially to add them to a running catalog of precedent projects I […]

Give A Voice LA is a social media campaign to build community driven after school programs in healthy living and the arts. Give A Voice LA seeks to encourage dialogue among […]

A huge topic of conversation in LA these days is the plan for Farmers Field, a state-of-the-art football stadium proposed for downtown, adjacent to LA Live and the Convention Center. […]

Did anyone else attend USGBC’s annual conference this year? I was impressed by the overarching themes of ecological systems thinking throughout many of the topics–including sessions about biomimicry, biophilia and […]

City leaders seem to think stadia promote economic development: despite expert testimony to the contrary. Why are they so misguided? Maybe they want to be. After all, people love football […]

I came across this blog today called 50 Year Project where the blogger hopes to visit the 192 UN countries (now there’s 193, but who’s counting?), watch 100 must-see movies, and […]

Another great video from TED! In this video Pam Warhurst, cofounder of Incredible Edible, shares how her community in Todmorden, England started a local food partnership to change the way […]

Gary Hustwit’s 2011 documentary, Urbanized, discusses design projects across multiple continents and includes innovative projects in housing, mobility, public space, and infrastructure. Despite its rich project diversity, the organization and […]