Walk [Your City] began when a few, civic-minded friends in Raleigh, NC posted a network of signs around town that gave walking directions to cool, local spots. It was a simple way to help citizens navigate their city on foot, but (surprise!) it resonated worldwide. Now, with hundreds of folks eager to adopt the movement, the team is working to create an open-source, web tool that will allow anyone to make, print, and post their very own neighborhood walking signs. See you on the sidewalks — see them as our Project of the Day.
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Our favorite wildly innovative NYC park is blooming and growing. Read all about it here on PSFK.
Note: The park is a quick easy trip if you’re going to be attending wifny.com in June or wbfny.com in October.
“A ‘Vertical Greenhouse’ Could Make a Swedish City Self-Sufficient”
This is amazing, and exactly the sort of project I’d like to be involved in when I finish school.
Your bucket list just got a lot longer…
Which American cities are looking to the future? Zipcar recently commissioned a study of the country’s 36 largest cities, evaluating them along criteria like innovation and sustainability and tallying up the results in the Future Metropolis Index. San Francisco won overall, but Atlanta took the top slot for innovation. The metrics to determine that? Number of wireless hotspots and universities per 10,000 residents. Pittsburgh, Boston, D.C., and Denver were runners-up.
Fast Co.Exist has the full breakdown. Where does your city fall? Do you agree with the results?