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Tell us about the cities and communities you know are currently struggling or in the process of revitalising.
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Bridging the gap with kindness and empathy
I have two stories, while being mugged, one man managed to convince his assailant to join him for dinner. Another, cares for those facing extreme poverty. The theme is the ability of one individual to connect with another for the positive.
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Mixed-Use Redevelopments Attract New Startups and Help New Haven Transform
A 60-acre complex of vacant firearms factories is redeveloped for bioscience companies and is transforming a once-dangerous neighborhood into a place for living, work, and play.
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Temporary shipping container mall stimulates economic recovery in Christchurch
Using temporary, inexpensive yet creatively designed structures to completely revive areas of destruction or desolation is a positive story emerging from the terrible earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Innovate for the Greater Good
Bull City Forward enables local entrepreneurs in Durham to create world-changing solutions by providing resources to these innovators in a cooperative, collaborative setting. BCF utilizes extensive networks to encourage these ideas to grow.
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The One Millionth Tower project gets powered by Steelcase! A story of smart scaling.
Over a billion of us live in deteriorating apartment buildings, and in One Millionth Tower, we wanted to discover how harnessing the spirit of the people who live inside can help re-imagine the bleak highrise landscape, anywhere in the world.
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$1 Property for 1 year
Philadelphia offered dilapidated and abandoned for $1. New owners had one year to start construction.
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Boomerang Cities
Aside from Detroit there are two other cities that have experienced sweeping economic and industrial declines. Turin, Italy is the home of Fiat, which struggled for years, and Youngstown, Ohio which felt the impact of reduced steel production.
Creating Life from Waste
Since 1957, Garden-Ville in San Antonio, TX has been taking food and industrial waste and making compost for farms and gardens, and wood chips for landscapes and playgrounds.
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Employee Owned Businesses in Emilia Romagna
Cooperatives, including community and employee-owned enterprises, provide increased economic democracy and distributed profits. Emilia Romagna has used the structure to build multinational companies that make it one Italy's most prosperous regions
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Broken City Lab: creative citizens take on a collapsed post-industrial city
Broken City Lab is an artist collective "concepting" the future of Windsor, Ontario. The projects and processes are designed from observations and concerns about Canada's southernmost city, which used to be the auto capital of the British Empire.
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Art can change the world
JR believes art can change the world. By taking pictures of people and printing them out as huge posters and post them to public spaces like people's roofs or walls by streets, he changes the atmosphere of a neighborhood full of crimes.
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Building the Next Generation of Environmental Stewards in NYC
Beekman Compost initiative aims to expand community access to and participation with composting, while creating compost-related positions for young adults.
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The House That Built Us
Adventures of a recent Habitat for Humanity - Global Village build in Nepal....
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Shortening the Supply Chain
Grameen Danone started as a social business collaboration to provide children in Bangladesh with essential vitamins. Through the process Danone discovered that shortening the supply chain and smaller production could also increase profits.
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Make the city look colourful!
Add colours to the cities. It adds life and positive energy.
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Crisis map for japanese disaster
This service provides earthquake information to everyone.
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unresolved spaces
mapping might be the first step towards awareness and then to action.
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Creating seemingly impossible living spaces
Guatemala city is a place struck by violence and poverty. Overcrowded streets have become "markets" and are surrounded by unmaintained, barren areas. Careful planning has returned a city center street its place as a safe and fun place to coexist.
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Social Investment
Social investment can rapidly accelerate the growth of the small scale enterprises.
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Irodori venture from local rural area
business with beautiful colored Leaves
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Megacity Traffic: Lagos, Nigeria
Traffic in Lagos, Nigeria is pretty nuts. If you live on the Mainland, it can take you 3+ hours to get to work on Lagos Island (with good weather!). A daily commute can involve numerous forms of transportation -- walking, buses, taxis, motorcycles.