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Q&A with Jason Mark: Bring the Land to the People
for GOOD Magazine The complete antithesis of the rural idyll that many might associate with farming, the 4-1/2 acre Alemany Farm is located just off the decidedly non-bucolic Highway 280 in San...
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Rebuilding in Haiti
Highly controversial government trailers once intended for disaster victims were recently put on the auction block. Associated Press. The federal government recently agreed to sell most of the 120,000...
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How to Green Your Parents
Courtesy of Academy for Global Citizenship. Getting kids interested in nature and their environment can help improve their test scores, reduce childhood obesity and increase self-confidence. Thursday...
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The Way We Design Now
It’s strange to think that just a few years ago, it felt as if design schools and studios nationwide must have been holding special screenings of “The Graduate.” Down the aisles of Target, in the pages...
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Blueprints for a Better Burb
Levittown, N.Y., c. 1950s. Courtesy of Hofstra University’s Department of Special Collections, Long Island Studies Institute That the Murphys, the couple recently arrested for spying for the Russians...
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Home for Life
Amy Casey, Courtesy of Zg Gallery, Chicago “Dangling” My husband and I spent a year looking for our first home. Every Sunday, we’d jump in the car with driving directions and hope, the latter often...
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Let the Sun Shine In
Courtesy of Laguna Honda Traditionally, Nightingale wards like those once used at Laguna Honda contained about 24 to 34 beds, which made patient privacy an impossibility. When I started writing this...
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The Public Square Goes Mobile
“We don’t need more leaders. We need more followers. Wherever & however you can enter public life is ok.” That tweet by Carol Coletta, president and CEO of CEOs for Cities, is a radical provocation...
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Can Airports Be Fun?
Few who fly — or fly coach, anyway — would disagree that the entire experience of air travel from check-in to landing carries with it an overwhelming sense that everyone involved has simply given up....
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All Tomorrows’s Taxi
Sometime early this year, New York City’s taxi and limousine commission will announce the winner of its “Taxi of Tomorrow” competition. Or it won’t. The project was begun in 2007, and in December 2009...
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