Helping your kids find their own fun at the local park.
(via Slate Leave your kids at the park day: Why letting kids play on their own is a good idea.)
An annual challenge encourages Ohio students to bike to school.
(via How to Make Your Town Into a Bike-to-School Mecca - Sarah Goodyear - The Atlantic Cities)
NYT profile of Joseph Ficalora who has become a kind of street art curator in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
(via A Son of Bushwick Turns the Neighborhood Into a Gallery for Street Art - NYTimes.com)
NYT Profile of Ron Finley who is transforming unused spaces into gardens in his L.A. neighborhood.
(via Urban Gardening - An Appleseed With Attitude - NYTimes.com)
Happenings sampler from GOOD’s first annual Neighborday … (via Neighborday Recap: The 10 Best Things That Happened This April 27th | Culture on GOOD)
Ways to adopt the neighborhood bus stop
There’s no law that says the bus stop has to be a bleak patch of despair …
via urbanhedgerow:
Dumpster Garden in NYC. Read about the man with the plan here.
Well, we have to like this, via good:
The Home Team: In an Age of Virtual Niches, In Praise of Opening Doors to Unfamiliar Neighbors
- Frank Chimero wrote in Living, Creativity and CitiesI’ve never had a door that wasn’t next to someone else’s. Growing up, my bedroom was nearest to my sister’s; after that, I left home for college and dorm life, then greeted adulthood with successive apartments in the city. Chicago, Portland, then Brooklyn—with each move, I gained more neighbors on each side.
Diverse Schools and Neighborhood Gentrification
Weighing the criteria for school assignments in changing neighborhoods via Atlantic Cities.
