TheBrain

Revitalizing Cities

"My City" (1916)

5 Urban Village Projects Transforming Communities

7 Steps to Municipal Resilience & Recovery

7 Tactics for 21st-Century Cities

50 Creative Ideas To Make Better Cities, Presented On Gorgeously Designed Posters

50 Ideas for the New City

100 Urban Trends (2012 pdf)

101 small ways you can improve your city

A plan towards building micro homes and micro apartments for struggling cities

Adapt Transform Reuse

Adaptive Cities

Adaptive Metropolis: User-Generated Urbanism

Adaptive Reuse (of buildings)

agora

All Together Now (xlnt)

ArtPlace

At This Staten Island Restaurant, a Kitchen Run by Grandmas (xlnt)

Atlas of Utopias

Barcelona en Comú (2014 as Guanyem)

Barcelona's Superblocks (superilles, 9-block pedestrian zones)

Base Cities

Big Car Collaborative (2004)

Big Local: 150 UK Communities got $1mm Each, No Strings

Binghamton Neighborhood Project

Bloomberg Cities

Bountiful Cities Project

Breaking up Concrete to Plant Trees and Let Water Through

Broadway Housing Communities (BHC)

Building the Networked City From the Ground Up With Citizens (xlnt)

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (2009)

Can crowdfunding kickstart struggling cities?

Center for Urban Innovation (2015)

Centre for Cities and Creativity

Ciclovias

Cities Alive

Cities Alive: Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander and the Roots of the New Urban Renaissance

Cities and the Sharing Economy

Cities for People

Cities Harnessing Waste

Cities Offering Incentives to Attract People

Cities that Think Like the Web

Cities That Love Bikes

Cities That Saved and Redesigned Themselves

Citiscope

City Districts Emphasizing Mural Art

City Repair Project

CITY2.0

CITY2.0 Resources

CivX

Coliving (or co-living)

Co-Locating Daycare and Eldercare

Combating the Effects of Gentrification

Communities Take over Distressed Golf Courses

Community Capital

Community Land Trusts (CLTs)

Community-Led Development (CLD)

Crowdfunding the Commons

Democratizing Cities (2017)

DigitalTown

DIYcity

Downtown Project

Downtown revitalization secret: Let us drink in public!

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative's (1984 DSNI)

EcoDistricts

Edens Lost & Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities

Education Cities

Eleven Signs a City Will Succeed

Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change

Energize Clinton County

Five Cities That Are Leading the Way in Urban Innovation

Foodscaping (Edible Landscapes)

From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design

From Here: The World Has Changed. Where Do We Go From Here? (NYT series)

Fuse Corps

Gardening Your Own Food

gE.CO Living Lab

GlobalVillages

Granny Cloud

Greening Cities

GreenMap.org

Guerrilla Gardening

Gutter Cafes

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (2013)

Homegrown National Park

How Can We Redesign Cities as Shared Spaces?

How Cities Can Become More Resilient (TED Talk)

How Minneapolis Freed Itself From the Stranglehold of Single-Family Homes

How to make Cities for People

How to Win Back the City en Comú (2016 pdf)

Hub Culture: The Next Wave of Urban Consumers

Icelandic Model Substance Abuse Prevention

Improving Your Neighborhood

In pictures: the winners of the High Line for London competition

Incredible Edible Todmorden

Indigenous People Taking Back Control of Their Towns

International Making Cities Livable (1985 IMCL)

Intersection Repair

ioby (2007 in our back yards)

Is Your City Getting in the Way of Your Social Life?

It's Time to Rethink 'Temporary'

Janelle Orsi

Jason Roberts - How To Build a Better Block

la Cité de la réussite

Lab Para La Ciudad

LabGov (LABoratory for the GOVernance of the City as a Commons)

Landscape Urbanism

Learning Cities

Leefstraten

Lending (Sharing ) Libraries

les UX (Paris Urban Experiment 1981)

Livable Streets (1981)

living labs global

Living Cities

Living Machine

Living Room Sharing

Local Futures (1978)

Local Living Economies

Local Trust (2012)

Los Angeles River Revitalization

Loveland (2010)

Major City Walking Park Renovations

Maker City: A Practical Guide for Reinventing Our Cities (2016)

Mayors Challenge 2014

Mayors Who Rescued Their Cities through Radical Innovation

Motor City Mapping

Mower Gang (2010)

Neighborhood Economics Funding Kit

New Cities

New Dream Community Action Kit

New life for old towns through sustainable tourism (2013)

NewCities

Next City (2003 as Next American City)

Nina Simon

O Urban Pioneers!

Opening Government Facilities to Citizens

Oslo made its city center basically car-free--and it's great

Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America (2018)

Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes (2012)

Parish Collective

Pavement to Parks

Pedestrian Towns

Pedestrian Zones

PJB Sweet Spots

Placemaking

Potential Braindrops

Poynton Regenerated

Project for Public Spaces (PPS 1975)

Purpose Built Communities (2009)

Rails-to-Trails Projects (Rail Trails)

Reburbia

Reinventing Cities

Repair Cafes

Repurposing Parking Structures and Spaces

Reshaping Rochester

Resilient Society

Rethinking City Development

Retrofitting Buildings for Green or Reuse

Revitalizing Abandoned Towns

Revitalizing Self and City (2015)

Revitalizing Urban Space Through Derelict Revival [My Ideal City]

Revival of City Centers

Revived, Exciting Urban Zones

Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities (2022)

San Francisco Equitable Pioneers Society

Scott Burnham

Seeds of Good Anthropocenes

Shareable Cities

Shared Space

Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons (2017)

Shorts to Revitalize Cities

Sidewalk Labs (2015)

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia (2013)

Smart city inspired by art and pedagogy

Smart Growth

Sociable Cities

Social Practice

Social Streets

Start with Things People Are Already Doing Today in Their Communities

Startup Cities Institute (SCI)

Storytelling + Relationships + Resources = Lasting Change

Strong Towns

Sustasis Foundation (2007, after Katrina)

Tactical (Guerrilla, DIY) Urbanism

Tearing Down Freeways (Removal)

TEDxAustin - Jason Roberts (2012, watch this one first)

The Better Block

The Burning Man Project

The Cheonggyecheon, Once a Highway, Now a Haven

The City as Lab: 21 Metropoles Prepare to Prototype

The Copenhagenize Project

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World (2000)

The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline

The Interventionist's Toolkit, Part 3

The Metropolitan Revolution: Cities on the Rise out of Necessity

The Participatory Museum (2010)

The Purpose City

The Rainbow Grandpa Who Saved His Village

The Reinvention of America

The Relational Ecosystems of Cities

The Rise of the Heartland

The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier and Smarter (2014)

The Week • Day#2 • Prototype (USA, March 2021): Is There Hope?

Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art

TheCityFix

To Encourage Biking, Cities Forget About Helmets

Transition Towns

TreePeople (1973)

Tumml: Urban Ventures Accelerator

Turning Roads Back into Parks and Pedestrian Zones

Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence (2017)

unMonastery (2014)

Urban Bicycling

Urban Commons

Urban Innovation Exchange

Urban Omnibus

Urban Prototyping

Urban River Restoration

URBAN RE:VISION

Van Alen Institute (1894 as the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects)

Violence Interrupters

Visualizations of Urban Improvements

Walkable Cities

Walking School Bus

What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time

What If A City Has To Rethink Its Past to Understand its Future?

What New York Can Learn From Barcelona’s ‘Superblocks’

What's the Secret of Making a Happy City?

Where American Politics Can Still Work: From the Bottom Up (nice!)

Wins, Bravery, and a Loss

Wynwood Walls

Yard Sharing

Zero Carbon Guildford (ZCG)

🏙Snowstorms, shovels and hoodies – showing up, and forging community, one block at a time

Cities

Cities Are Where the Interesting Action Is

Healing the Earth

Local Stuff

Promising Solutions to World Crises and Thorny Social Problems

The Design from Trust (DfT) Platform

Urban Planning

Urban Renewal

Useful Starting Points for Understanding Jerry's Brain

Articles About Urban Planning

Future of Cities

Life Advice

Urban.Us

3 Cities Project

5. World cities are rising as cosmopolitan actors.

2021-06-03 OGM Check-in Call

2021-07-13 Build OGM Call

2021-08-12 OGM Check-in Call

2022-10-20 OGM Call: Post-Capitalism (video has 2 big gaps for the breakouts)

2022-10 My Unfinished Keynote: A Worldview Built from Contrarians (U22)

A Call to Large Scale Earth Healing and Lessons from the Loess Plateau

A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone (2018)

A New Economy (2019)

A Pattern Language for Healing the Earth

A simple thread in which we eliminate poverty in America, build the economy, and ensure Democrats are re-elected, by admitting money is pretend.

Abolish Patents

Actually Reforming Police

Aerial Bombing of Cities

Allan Savory

Allan Savory: How to green the desert and reverse climate change

Allow the Next Network to Be Built -- Locally

America needs a network of rebel cities to stand up to Trump

Andy Lipkis and TreePeople

Articles About Cities

Associations of Cities

Ban (and Reverse!) Bulletproof Warrior

Beautiful Old Films of Cities

Best Cities

Blue Urbanism

Blueprint for a better world

Books of Cities Infographic

Brian Eno Lists 20 Books for Rebuilding Civilization & 59 Books For Building Your Intellectual World

Bridging Governments’ Borders

Building Living Neighborhoods

Buy Local

Can a Mayor Succeed Where Presidents Fail?

Capital Cities

Center for Urban Renewal and Education (1995 CURE)

CEOs for Cities

Charles Montgomery

Cheonggyecheon (freeway turned back into river)

Cities and Gender (mostly designed by men, for men)

Cities and Mayors Collaborating

Cities Exerting Control over Public Spaces

Cities I've Lived In

Cities Pledging to Ban Fossil Fuel Cars

Cities Restricting the Sharing Economy

Cities that "Benefited" from Colonialism

Citizen (Public) Journalism

Citizens

City & County of San Francisco Planning Department

City (Urban) Parks

City Beautiful (1890s)

City Blocks

City Branding

City Centers (Downtowns)

City Comforts

City Guides

City Magazines

City Maps

City Planning

City Populations Are Inversely Proportional to Their Rank

City Size Comparison

City Taglines

City Walls

Citymart (2011)

Cityscapes

City-States (aka Free Cities)

Cleaning the World

Codes for a Healthy Earth

Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril (2020)

Commoning (Living in the Commons)

Communities Trying to Fix World Problems

Community Banks

Community Development

Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs)

Compassionate Cities

Concentric Zone Model (aka CCD or Burgess Model)

Conferences about Cities

Congestion Pricing for Cars

Conscious Capitalism

Cosmo-localism

Create a US Dept. of Peace

Crowdfunding Local Improvements

Curitiba

Dam Removal

Data about Cities

Demilitarize Our Cities!

Design for Human and Planetary Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach To Sustainability (2016 pdf)

Districts

Donald Shoup

Doughnut Economics

Earliest (Ancient) Cities

Earth Island Institute (1982)

East Harlem

East Palo Alto

Ecosystem Restoration

EcoTipping Points and the Reversal of Environmental Decline

EDAW

Education Drives Urban Growth

Edward Soja

Ekistics

Eliminate the Death Penalty

Eliminate the Dept. of Agriculture

Eliminate the Dept. of Education (yes!)

Eliminate the Electoral College

Enumerated Wisdom

Erosion Control

Esplanades (Promenades)

Examples of the Relationship Economy in Action

Feature> Emergent Master Planning

First Carbon Finance Spreads Green Over Highland

Form-based Code (1982)

Freeways Could Obliterate "Urban Blight"

Funny City Names

Game B (2011)

Garden City Movement (1898)

Ghost Cities in China

Global City (also World Cities, Alpha Cities)

Golden Ages (metaphoric)

Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet

Google's Effects on Cities

Green Swans: The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism (2020)

Green the Cities

Green Urbanism

Greener Pastures

Grid Plans

Habitat Reconstruction

Healing Biotopes

Health In Harmony (2005)

High Functioning City States

Highway Revolts

Historic City Centers

Hope in a Changing Climate

How Do You Keep Money, Wealth and Value Local?

How Many Humans Will Computers Replace?

How Might We Blend the Best of the Old and New?

How Not To Go Extinct (xlnt)

How Wolves Change Rivers

HumanityFWD (Forward)

Hyperlocal

If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities (2013)

Imagine Chicago

Immigration Rights as Reparations for Colonialism and Interference

In the context of renationalizing states, the world city is becoming the main cosmopolitan actor, working in cooperation with NGOs and civil society movements.

Industrial Districts

Indy Johar

Infill

Infrastructure as Catalyst

Introduction to Urban Design and Development

James Howard (Jim) Kunstler

James Rossant

Journey into Ecological Resurgence (2012)

Just Transition Framework

Kaitiakitanga (guardianship, stewardship)

Land Use Planning

Landmarks

Landscape Studies

Largest Urban Agglomerations

Lawrence (Larry) Susskind

Legalizing Drugs

Legalizing Euthanasia

Legalizing Gay Marriage

Legalizing Prostitution

Let’s Curate the Big Fungus Together

Lewis Mumford

Lift the Embargo on Cuba (yay! done! oh wait...)

LiloRann

live local

Living Water

Living-History (Open-Air) Museums

Local Activists

Local Artists

Local Capital

Local Currencies

Local Customs and Etiquette

Local Democracy

Local Events

Local Food

Local Government

Local Independent Movie Theaters

Local Infrastructure

Local Involvement

Local Loop

Local Maxima

Local Media

Local Papers

Local Services

Local Solutions

Localism

Localization

Localization: A Global Manifesto (2000)

Locals We Trust

Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It (2011)

Locavores

Major Tech Centers

Make People Liable if Others Use Their Guns

Making Cities Child Friendly

Making Public Transportation Systems Free (Fare-Free Transit)

Mandatory Gun Liability Insurance (redeploy health insurance workers)

Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World (2020)

Mapping the Mega-Regions Powering the World’s Economy

materialthinking

Revitalizing Cities