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Crowdfund your community project with Brickstarter
Bryan Boyer and Dan Hill may be saints, sent down on high by the God of City Planning. They have come up with a tool that may actually make the process of improving a neighborhood less tedious, less difficult, and less prone to 10-hour-long community meetings in which everyone has to say what they think. […]
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Could America see an India-style blackout?
The very short answer is "yes." But it's also highly unlikely -- unless the U.S. sits on its infrastrucural butt.
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These trees on wheels double as wifi hotspots
It doesn’t seem fair that car-owning people can use parking spots (or rent them at extremely low rates) to store their cars, but the car-free don’t get to use them to store our stuff. We have 50 cents, and we live here too! Fortunately, Milanese designer Matteo Cibic has found an easy way for the […]
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Along the L.A. River, new signs of life in an industrial wasteland
While city leaders labor to rebuild riverside green space, Mama Nature is making inroads of her own. These scrappy wetlands offer a hint of what is to come in a city that’s going green.
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The first challenge to restoring the L.A. River: Reminding Angelenos that it exists
City planners once imagined that Los Angeles residents would take pleasant walks along the freeways that line the L.A. River’s banks, but today, the waterway is largely invisible to the city that surrounds it.
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Atlanta region heads to the polls to reject a massive transportation investment
We've looked into our crystal ball, and it doesn't look good.
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I am kind of in love with these glowing fish bikes
As I always say, a woman needs a man like I need a fish-bicycle. Which is why I got married, I guess, because I need this fish-bicycle pretty bad.
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Can sprawling Los Angeles learn to let a river run through it?
It will take more than pretty streamside parks to heal the beaten-down L.A. River. A real revival will have to involve the entire watershed – a tall order in a valley dominated by blacktop and rooftops.
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Los Angeles River checks into rehab
The Los Angeles River usually gets attention only when it cameos as an apocalyptic wasteland in movies. But a closer look reveals secret hideaways that could someday give the sprawling city a stronger sense of ecological identity.
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This amazing lightweight bike is made entirely out of cardboard
The bikes cost about $10 to make and can support up to 300 pounds.
