DOWNTOWN PROJECT
This Saturday and Sunday, a group of sustainably-minded community members will Build a Greener Block. The group will take over a blighted section of Main Street to demonstrate just how amazing (and green) our Downtown can become. The weekend will include pop-up restaurants and shops, live music, and a chance to learn more about how we [...]
But we here in Las Vegas can learn a lot from the town of Greensburg, Kansas. In May of 2007, a tornado basically removed the town from the face of the earth. It leveled the whole place. The town, with a population of around 1,500 and struggling with its primarily agricultural economy, could have just [...]
Graham Hill, founder of treehugger.com and lifeedited.com first visited Downtown Las Vegas a little over a month ago. Now he’s hoping to bring his style of living greener here, and his plans to do that won’t just bring about a change in our environment; they’ll change the way we think about how we live. The [...]
April 28th and 29th, a diverse group of people, dedicated to making Downtown Las Vegas a better and more sustainable place, will take over a block of Main Street. They’ll be working hard to Build a Greener Block and to illustrate what they hope our Downtown can become. You can help support this initiative. Check [...]
Many of the ideas being put into action to revitalize Downtown are informed by Edward Glaeser’s 2011 book about the ways in which cities enrich the lives of those who call them home. The very subtitle of the Harvard economist’s master work Triumph of the City is a list of adjectives that most of us [...]
Alicia Berg is Vice President of Campus Environment at Columbia College Chicago. In that role, Berg works to create a cohesive campus from over twenty buildings dispersed throughout the South Loop. To that end, she has overseen the completion and implementation of a campus master plan including a 20% increase in the college’s footprint and [...]
Danish architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) doesn’t merely create mind-blowing designs that expand the perception of what architecture can be. Their ideas can also expand the ways we look at urban development and revitalization. Founded twelve years ago, BIG has designed projects around the world in such far-flung locales as Dubai, China, New York City, [...]
