Luke Jerram

Bristol waterslide

Friday Funday: Turning a City Street into a Giant Waterslide

Artist Luke Jerram recently installed a 300-foot waterslide on Park Street in Bristol, UK. The "Park and Slide" event was massively attended and wildly popular.

May 9, 2014 - Sustainable Cities Collective

Bristol waterslide

The Best Urban Crowdfunding Projects

Guardian Cities has compiled a list (with pictures!) of the "smartest" urban crowdfunding projects from around the world.

April 29, 2014 - Guardian Cities

Pianos in Public Places

A public art piece titled "Play Me, I'm Yours" entails putting pianos in public spaces around Manhattan (27 in all) for anyone to sit down and bang out a tune.

May 22, 2010 - The Village Voice

FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.

Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold

The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.

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