Shareable: Cities

Five Shareable Solutions to the Foreclosure Crisis

03.10.10, 5:51am Comments (2)

Last year, banks foreclosed on almost three million homes. Five million more homeowners now owe more than their houses are worth.

Death of an Exurb

By Mark Hogan

03.09.10, 8:00pm Comments (0)

In general, we like to keep things positive here at Shareable.net.

Has Cab-Sharing in New York Really Failed?

By RACHEL BOTSMAN

03.09.10, 6:26am Comments (1)

"Wondering why the city’s cab-sharing experiment fizzled last week?"

How to Design Family-Friendly Transit

By EngineerScotty

03.04.10, 1:46pm Comments (0)

I'm a father of several small children, including twin four-year-old boys.

Can We Design Cities for Happiness?

By Jay Walljasper

03.03.10, 7:27am Comments (5)

Happiness itself is a commons to which everyone should have equal access.

Two Videos: Lost Landscapes of the City

By Jeremy Adam Smith

02.28.10, 10:02am Comments (0)

Rick Prelinger of the Prelinger Library recently screened "Lost Landscapes of Detroit," public domain footage of the city at the height of the age of the automobile. The vi

How to Create a Bike Corridor

By Joseph Prichard

02.26.10, 10:26am Comments (0)

When I began exploring how bike route signage could be redesigned to increase its effectiveness for Los Angeles, I quickly discovered that a test case was in order.

Taxi Cab Sharing in New York City and Beyond

By Janelle Orsi

02.23.10, 5:04pm Comments (0)

This week, New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission will launch a cab sharing program along some of the city's well-traveled corridors.

Three Cool Ways to Explore a City

By Jeremy Adam Smith

02.23.10, 12:30pm Comments (4)

1. Flip a Coin: "Lliving a block away from the World Trade Center site after 9/11, I re-explored lower Manhattan by leaving my house, flipping a coin at every intersection to determine my route," writes photographer and writer Gavin Edwards.

Imagining Streets Without Cars

By Jeremy Adam Smith

02.22.10, 8:03am Comments (2)

"I thought you might get a kick out of a photo side project I've been working on called Narrow Streets: Los Angeles, where I head out to locations in LA (some requested by readers), snap pix of streets, and then narrow them down in Photoshop,

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