5 Urban Village Projects Transforming Communities
7 Steps to Municipal Resilience & Recovery
7 Tactics for 21st-Century Cities
50 Creative Ideas To Make Better Cities, Presented On Gorgeously Designed Posters
50 Ideas for the New City
100 Urban Trends (2012 pdf)
101 small ways you can improve your city
2023-05-02 Mind Meld: Revitalizing Portland
A plan towards building micro homes and micro apartments for struggling cities
Adaptive Metropolis: User-Generated Urbanism
Adaptive Reuse (of buildings)
At This Staten Island Restaurant, a Kitchen Run by Grandmas (xlnt)
Barcelona en Comú (2014 as Guanyem)
Barcelona's Superblocks (superilles, 9-block pedestrian zones)
Big Car Collaborative (2004)
Big Local: 150 UK Communities got $1mm Each, No Strings
Binghamton Neighborhood Project
Breaking up Concrete to Plant Trees and Let Water Through
Broadway Housing Communities (BHC)
Building the Networked City From the Ground Up With Citizens (xlnt)
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (2009)
Can crowdfunding kickstart struggling cities?
Center for Urban Innovation (2015)
Centre for Cities and Creativity
Cities Alive: Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander and the Roots of the New Urban Renaissance
Cities and the Sharing Economy
Cities Offering Incentives to Attract People
Cities that Think Like the Web
Cities That Saved and Redesigned Themselves
City Districts Emphasizing Mural Art
Co-Locating Daycare and Eldercare
Combating the Effects of Gentrification
Communities Take over Distressed Golf Courses
Community Land Trusts (CLTs)
Community-Led Development (CLD)
Democratizing Cities (2017)
Downtown revitalization secret: Let us drink in public!
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative's (1984 DSNI)
Edens Lost & Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities
Eleven Signs a City Will Succeed
Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change
Five Cities That Are Leading the Way in Urban Innovation
Foodscaping (Edible Landscapes)
From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design
From Here: The World Has Changed. Where Do We Go From Here? (NYT series)
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (2013)
How Can We Redesign Cities as Shared Spaces?
How Cities Can Become More Resilient (TED Talk)
How Minneapolis Freed Itself From the Stranglehold of Single-Family Homes
How to make Cities for People
How to Win Back the City en Comú (2016 pdf)
Hub Culture: The Next Wave of Urban Consumers
Icelandic Model Substance Abuse Prevention
Improving Your Neighborhood
In pictures: the winners of the High Line for London competition
Incredible Edible Todmorden
Indigenous People Taking Back Control of Their Towns
International Making Cities Livable (1985 IMCL)
ioby (2007 in our back yards)
Is Your City Getting in the Way of Your Social Life?
It's Time to Rethink 'Temporary'
Jason Roberts - How To Build a Better Block
LabGov (LABoratory for the GOVernance of the City as a Commons)
Lending (Sharing ) Libraries
les UX (Paris Urban Experiment 1981)
Little Free Library (2009)
Los Angeles River Revitalization
Major City Walking Park Renovations
Maker City: A Practical Guide for Reinventing Our Cities (2016)
Mayor Mockus' Social Experiments
Mayors Who Rescued Their Cities through Radical Innovation
Neighborhood Economics Funding Kit
New Dream Community Action Kit
New life for old towns through sustainable tourism (2013)
Next City (2003 as Next American City)
Opening Government Facilities to Citizens
Oslo made its city center basically car-free--and it's great
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America (2018)
Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes (2012)
Project for Public Spaces (PPS 1975)
Purpose Built Communities (2009)
Rails-to-Trails Projects (Rail Trails)
Repurposing Parking Structures and Spaces
Rethinking City Development
Retrofitting Buildings for Green or Reuse
Revitalizing Abandoned Towns
Revitalizing Self and City (2015)
Revitalizing Urban Space Through Derelict Revival [My Ideal City]
Revived, Exciting Urban Zones
Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities (2022)
San Francisco Equitable Pioneers Society
Seeds of Good Anthropocenes
Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons (2017)
Shorts to Revitalize Cities
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia (2013)
Smart city inspired by art and pedagogy
Start with Things People Are Already Doing Today in Their Communities
Startup Cities Institute (SCI)
Storytelling + Relationships + Resources = Lasting Change
Sustasis Foundation (2007, after Katrina)
Tactical (Guerrilla, DIY) Urbanism
Tearing Down Freeways (Removal)
TEDxAustin - Jason Roberts (2012, watch this one first)
The Cheonggyecheon, Once a Highway, Now a Haven
The City as Lab: 21 Metropoles Prepare to Prototype
The Copenhagenize Project
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World (2000)
The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline
The Interventionist's Toolkit, Part 3
The Metropolitan Revolution: Cities on the Rise out of Necessity
The Participatory Museum (2010)
The Rainbow Grandpa Who Saved His Village
The Reinvention of America
The Relational Ecosystems of Cities
The Rise of the Heartland
The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier and Smarter (2014)
The Week • Day#2 • Prototype (USA, March 2021): Is There Hope?
Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art
To Encourage Biking, Cities Forget About Helmets
Tumml: Urban Ventures Accelerator
Turning Roads Back into Parks and Pedestrian Zones
Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence (2017)
Urban Innovation Exchange
Van Alen Institute (1894 as the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects)
Visualizations of Urban Improvements
What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
What If A City Has To Rethink Its Past to Understand its Future?
What New York Can Learn From Barcelona’s ‘Superblocks’
What's the Secret of Making a Happy City?
Where American Politics Can Still Work: From the Bottom Up (nice!)
Wins, Bravery, and a Loss
Zero Carbon Guildford (ZCG)
🏙Snowstorms, shovels and hoodies – showing up, and forging community, one block at a time
Cities Are Where the Interesting Action Is
Promising Solutions to World Crises and Thorny Social Problems
The Design from Trust (DfT) Platform
Useful Starting Points for Understanding Jerry's Brain
Articles About Urban Planning
5. World cities are rising as cosmopolitan actors.
2021-06-03 OGM Check-in Call
2021-07-13 Build OGM Call
2021-08-12 OGM Check-in Call
2022-10-20 OGM Call: Post-Capitalism (video has 2 big gaps for the breakouts)
2022-10 My Unfinished Keynote: A Worldview Built from Contrarians (U22)
A Call to Large Scale Earth Healing and Lessons from the Loess Plateau
A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone (2018)
A Pattern Language for Healing the Earth
A simple thread in which we eliminate poverty in America, build the economy, and ensure Democrats are re-elected, by admitting money is pretend.
Actually Reforming Police
Allan Savory: How to green the desert and reverse climate change
Allow the Next Network to Be Built -- Locally
America needs a network of rebel cities to stand up to Trump
Andy Lipkis and TreePeople
Ban (and Reverse!) Bulletproof Warrior
Beautiful Old Films of Cities
Blueprint for a better world
Books of Cities Infographic
Brian Eno Lists 20 Books for Rebuilding Civilization & 59 Books For Building Your Intellectual World
Bridging Governments’ Borders
Building Living Neighborhoods
Can a Mayor Succeed Where Presidents Fail?
Center for Urban Renewal and Education (1995 CURE)
Cheonggyecheon (freeway turned back into river)
Cities and Gender (mostly designed by men, for men)
Cities and Mayors Collaborating
Cities Exerting Control over Public Spaces
Cities Pledging to Ban Fossil Fuel Cars
Cities Restricting the Sharing Economy
Cities that "Benefited" from Colonialism
Citizen (Public) Journalism
City & County of San Francisco Planning Department
City Populations Are Inversely Proportional to Their Rank
City-States (aka Free Cities)
Codes for a Healthy Earth
Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril (2020)
Commoning (Living in the Commons)
Communities Trying to Fix World Problems
Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs)
Concentric Zone Model (aka CCD or Burgess Model)
Congestion Pricing for Cars
Create a US Dept. of Peace
Crowdfunding Local Improvements
Design for Human and Planetary Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach To Sustainability (2016 pdf)
Earliest (Ancient) Cities
Earth Island Institute (1982)
EcoTipping Points and the Reversal of Environmental Decline
Education Drives Urban Growth
Eliminate the Death Penalty
Eliminate the Dept. of Agriculture
Eliminate the Dept. of Education (yes!)
Eliminate the Electoral College
Examples of the Relationship Economy in Action
Feature> Emergent Master Planning
First Carbon Finance Spreads Green Over Highland
Freeways Could Obliterate "Urban Blight"
Garden City Movement (1898)
Global City (also World Cities, Alpha Cities)
Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet
Google's Effects on Cities
Green Swans: The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism (2020)
High Functioning City States
Hope in a Changing Climate
How Do You Keep Money, Wealth and Value Local?
How Many Humans Will Computers Replace?
How Might We Blend the Best of the Old and New?
How Not To Go Extinct (xlnt)
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities (2013)
Immigration Rights as Reparations for Colonialism and Interference
In the context of renationalizing states, the world city is becoming the main cosmopolitan actor, working in cooperation with NGOs and civil society movements.
Infrastructure as Catalyst
Introduction to Urban Design and Development
James Howard (Jim) Kunstler
Journey into Ecological Resurgence (2012)
Just Transition Framework
Kaitiakitanga (guardianship, stewardship)
Largest Urban Agglomerations
Lawrence (Larry) Susskind
Let’s Curate the Big Fungus Together
Libertarian Approaches to Urban Planning
Lift the Embargo on Cuba (yay! done! oh wait...)
Living-History (Open-Air) Museums
Local Customs and Etiquette
Local Independent Movie Theaters
Localization: A Global Manifesto (2000)
Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It (2011)
Make People Liable if Others Use Their Guns
Making Cities Child Friendly
Making Public Transportation Systems Free (Fare-Free Transit)
Mandatory Gun Liability Insurance (redeploy health insurance workers)
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World (2020)
Mapping the Mega-Regions Powering the World’s Economy
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