Drake Garden Helps Chicagoans Get Their Hands Dirty

aa Since publishing The Great Neighborhood Book, we have continued to receive inspiring stories about how people are creating places in their communities. We plan to share these stories periodically on our blog. aa Volunteers get to work at Drake Garden. For over a decade, Drake Garden has been giving Chicago residents the opportunity to get their hands [...]

Toward a Robust and Accountable Transportation Planning Process

Gary Toth following up on his reflections on the USDOT webinar, Forum on Livability. As a career transportation geek, I found it particularly encouraging to hear talk about a new transportation planning process attached to performance measures which go beyond the overused and myopic focus solely on auto oriented benchmarks such as pavement quality, bridge inspections [...]

Placemaking at Harvard Yard: Enhancing the Humanities with Human Activity

Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office The memorable experiences of one’s education often take place in the most comfortable and socially engaging places on a campus.  Campus planning has sometimes been neglectful of allowing for and creating such places, instead focusing more narrowly on single-use facilities and isolated design statements. Harvard University has been quietly challenging this pattern and [...]

Lakefront Trail

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Under the Bean

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Millennium Park, Chicago

"Look at us!"

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Millennium Park, Chicago

chess party

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autumn garden

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