Mission #1
Explore Vibrancy
“Vibrancy” can mean many things, depending on the city, community or neighborhood you call home. What are some examples of places, people, or programs that showcase the vibrancy of where you live? What makes them that way?
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"Munduko Arrozak" a example for comunity reinforcement.
Munduko Arrozak is a very good local example for comunity reinforcement. A co...
"People" bringing Vibrancy!
What brings Vibrancy to cities, towns and neighborhoods? It's very simple. ...
"Programa Aconchego" (The "cuddle" project) - Students and seniors
This is an award-winning project of social innovation currently running at Op...
"Useless" vibrations in Lisbon, at Experimenta Design 2011
Every 2 years Lisbon vibrates around a tangential theme crossing creativity, ...
"Waterfire" and the revitalization of Providence
A series of bonfires floating on the Providence River are lit on summer night...
15,000 bottle caps for Africa.
This is how one architect is working with the Maasai community to build a sol...
798 Art District, Beijing
798 Art District is an artist's haven in northeast Beijing, housed within aba...
A community-owned department store
After losing its department store to bankruptcy, residents of Saranac Lake op...
A Design Center Taps Into The Youth
A two-week architecture/design camp in Jackson, MS that allows youth to re-im...
A DYNAMIC CREATIVE HUB WORKS AS A CATALYST FOR REGENERATION IN URBAN AREAS
The creative class has a great potential to set areas that suffered from chro...
A "greenhouse for little businesses"
Part event space and commercial kitchen the Logan Square Kitchen is both a ne...
A learning center for low-income youth in the heart of the mega-city
A vibrant learning center/community where kids of low-income service workers ...
A Local Food Community
My husband and I live in a suburb of San Francisco, CA. To me, when I think w...
A photographic interpretation of urban vibrancy, by Bas Princen
Bas Princen photographs urban landscapes, capturing in a very interesting way...
A Real-Life Hero: Newark's Cory Booker During the 2010 North American Blizzard
Newark's Mayor Cory Booker showed us what vibrancy looks like when he left th...
A River Runs Through It: Art and Community in Downtown Providence
Once upon a time not so long ago the world's widest bridge covered the river ...
A Stadium As the Heart of Downtown
Building a stadium in the heart of a city could reinvigorate its culture and ...
A stage to celebrate life - Leidseplein Amsterdam
Amsterdam flourishes with vibrancy, but one of the probably most vibrant loca...
A street get-together
We should have more get-togethers - I don't mean with friends and relatives, ...
Air Harvester
The "Air Harvester" promises to make droughts less of an issue
AISE Creative Capacity Building Workshop
Creative Capacity Building workshop in Nadosoito village with facilitators fr...
Alive Grafitti
Using moss artists are transforming graffiti art into living breathing three ...
Alley Flat Initiative, Restoring and Making Affordable
The Alley Flat Initiative in Austin, TX typically focuses on increasing urban...
Amp music -from Africa to the World-
Music label for people living in Slum of Africa.
Amplifying Creative Communities
Based on the premise that 'Good ideas can be amplified', Amplify works to unc...
An economy built on vibrant communities
Samba schools were founded in the slums of Rio – areas that have always strug...
An outdoor contemporary art exhibit
Ask a young group of neighborhood children to tell their story by taking pict...
Ann Arbor, MI: A Wolverine Way of Life
Despite being second to none as a university community, Ann Arbor is, in my e...
Architect and design community
At its campus in Moscow, Strelka brings together architects, intellectuals, d...
Architects of the Community
Architects of the Community is a nonprofit association comprised of construct...
Arreglamicalle.com, together we can fixe the public space!
This spanish web platform works as meeting point between citizens and city co...
Art: A Love Letter for You
Love Letter is literally love letters painted as murals on the walls of build...
Art and social engagement in Vancouver!
culturally diverse Vancouver has a strong citizen envolvement , huge respect ...
Art Hubs: Mixed use space for creativity and city transformation
Artscape is Canada's leading practitioner in multi-tenant space development f...
Asset mapping to understand strengths and vibrancy of the cities in need
What do all these cities and regions have in common besides the need to attra...
Baltimarket: Fresh Food in Urban Food Deserts
Baltimarket allows Baltimore residents who live in food deserts to order groc...
Barter economy
Barter economy is good way for people to get access to the services they need...
Before I die
I want to include the following example because I find it very successful in ...
Beirut: my inspiration for a vibrant city
My hometown has many problems, but its sense of community keeps it alive.
BerkShares - Local Currency Aims to Strengthen Local Economy
A local currency created in the Berkshire region of Massachusetts encourages ...
Biochar Urban Gardens
Using biochar compost (BC) all types of plants can be grown in urban spaces. ...
BIOCHAR URINALS
Biochar can be used for tapping the Nitrogen and other useful elements from u...
Biodivers-city
Cultivating micro-islands/cracks for new inhabitants to invade the city. Gar...
Blackstone Valley: Rebuilding vibrancy
Pride in a place drives people to take care of it, invest in it, and drive vi...
Bloomington, IN : The Most Vibrant City Per Square Foot
Bloomington, Indiana (home of Indiana University's flagship campus) has to be...
Bonding people through district activities
Shared gardens is only an example of solution for bringing vibrancy through p...
Brazilian Carnival
It's so nice to see the colours and the vibrancy of the carnival brought to l...
Bring the artists, students, and gays
Most realtors will tell you that urban renewal (and gentrification) follow a ...
Bringing back pride
One problem these communities face could be a lack of pride in their communit...
Bringing the community together at Washington DC's Eastern Market
Washington DC's Eastern Market brings together local members of the community...
Build Together, with some guidance (Project H and Emily Pilloton)
I love the idea of communities coming together for a common goal. The need is...
Building Community Block by Block
Better Blocks is a nationwide movement that encourages communities to improve...
Building culture of outdoor activities
Outdoor is the medium space between all other functions of a city ,either it ...
Building on Motown tradition of music & dance
Why not build on the Motown tradition of music & dance and create an arts cen...
Building together!
Have you seen those television shows were a whole house is rebuild in just a ...
Buildings as canvases
With some digital overlay buildings are transformed into amazing works of art.
Bushwick & the Puerto Rican Day Parade: Vibrancy in Expressions of Urban Vitality
In my neighborhood, Bushwick, Brooklyn, the Puerto Rican Day Parade is more t...
Business + Art Coincide: Wynwood Walls for Art
Whereas street art has always been seen as more of an outlawed activity, a si...
Buy Locally, Connect Locally
This is a concept video I created in graduate school. My idea is buying local...
Bystander effect
Bystander effect is one huge social problem of a big city. Sometimes it's not...
Caffè sospeso
Many years ago, in the Neapolitan society, you could order a Caffè sospeso, l...
Cardboard forts, community style || Temporary structures as prototypes
It is one thing to look at a map, quite another to experience a place. Borrow...
Celebrate possibilities.
Create or reclaim an urban place to imagine possibilities for a neighborhood....
Celebrations
I've been to many different festivals and events in many different cities. T...
Chairsharing
A public service of Internet-connected movable chairs brings new life to the ...
Change By Us: Reinventing Public Participation through a "Social Network for Civic Activity"
Change By Us is a platform for putting your ideas on improving the city into ...
Change the persoective
This huge and playful rabbit in the middle of streets, make people to see the...
Cheap is an Opportunity
The Motor City has 33,529 vacant houses. To most of the country, that's 33,52...
Clean, Color, Capable
3 steps to a more vibrant city.
Clear Village
Clear Village is an international non-profit based in London that develops pr...
Coat design that works to end urban homelessness
The Empowerment plan centers around a coat designed to protect the homeless. ...
Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo island is a repurposed abandoned industrial island.
Code for America
Code for America (CfA) is a fellowship program similar to Teach for America. ...
Coffee + Art + Music
I find that regardless of where I am, the most vibrant public spaces are coff...
Collaborative Consumption
Facing economic decline it becomes even more important to rethink the way we ...
Columbia Road flower market as a catalyst for revitalization
A flower market has got so popular on Sundays that it has spawned new stores,...
Communal Rejuvination
In my experience, the vibrance of a city primarily is derived from the people...
communicating on the street
Creating an off-line outdoor space for posting communication that allows comm...
Community bartering
No matter how depressed an area can be, there are always possibilities of add...
Community Cooker
An innovative community-driven approach to turning garbage into fuel.
Community Cooperatives
Cooperatives reduce the risk on business owners while supporting community me...
Community Interaction Online
I consider Davis, CA a vibrant city. One thing that makes it vibrant is the i...
Community Kitchen
In a community kitchen one person cooks for the neighborhood. This helps to c...
Connect Community with Their Pocket Parks
The pocket parks project in Little Village is about creating beautiful and in...
Connecting people through art
He has been already mentioned in several earlier challenges, but I think TED ...
Connecting People Together
Vibrancy is not just about building , but also sharing a meaningful experienc...
CowParade
Imagine yourself walking on the streets in Paris, and passing by a life-size ...
Create a Mecca
Take the worst neighborhood, the neighborhood people are scared to enter a pu...
Creating an emotional connection between citizens through media that captures a city's essence
Chrysler's Eminem Superbowl commercial is about more than selling cars
Creatively engaging people off-line
Sundae Sermon is a series of family friendly music events that occur in parks...
CREATIVITY AND ART INSPIRING SOCIAL CHANGE IN CAPE TOWN
Write on Africa is a platform for artists and designers to create the change ...
Creativity Circle in Stockholm
Creativity Circle is a self-organized bi-monthly event taking place in Stockh...
"Defining" La Penda through the Lens of Vibrancy
Vibrancy in this small, rural Dominican community looks like a support network.
Detroit Synergy
Detroit Synergy is a non profit which connects residents to work on community...
Disco in a real train
Debosch Express Train Party in Latvia. Rout: Riga - Lilvarde - Skulte - Riga.
Diverse Vibrancy!
India is the diverse country with different culture, communities, festivals....
Diversity, Vibrancy, Opportunity: social, economic, & otherwise
Having moved around every 2 years basically my whole life, one place in parti...
Draw people in with experiential art
Art can be inspiring, curious, outlandish, and downright confusing. But it ma...
Economic Development X Housing X art spaces
Economic Development X Housing X art spaces
Eliminate Brownfields!
Brownfield sites are abandoned or underused industrial and commercial facilit...
Eliminating 'food deserts'
Stockbox Grocers is a miniature grocery that is tucked inside a reclaimed shi...
Embrace and support venues for localized culture
In the contemporary mediated world, we tend to focus on a larger cultural con...
Emphasizing education in Nairobi's largest slum
I don't know that I've ever been as inspired by a for-purpose organization as...
Enriching poor neighborhoods
Give Space Now turns empty spaces into new ventures to bring new life to depo...
Enterprise Fund to form Worker Owned Cooperatives as a vehicle for Economic Growth
Worker owned cooperatives can spark economic growth by allowing labor to be o...
Environmentally Friendly, Inexpensive and Beautiful Shelters
Sandbags and barbed wire are used by Cal-Earth to create beautiful (!) shelte...
Ethnic Festivals in Toronto
Toronto has a variety of festivals going on especially during summer time. Am...
everyday people changing the world
Few days ago I stumbled on this web page, CNN Heroes, common people driven by...
Exhibition Road Says Sayonara to Sidewalks and Hello to Shared Space
While many liveable city plans encourage more sidewalks and bike lanes to pro...
Family Independence Initiative as a model for social support for goal-setting, economic empowerment
Facilitate family support networks that meet to discuss their goals and where...
Fayetteville Free Library's FabLab
Reinventing the library for the 21st century, this upstate public library wil...
Festival of Ideas for the New City
The multi-day Festival, held in May 2011, intended to "harness the power of t...
FIGHTBACK! CRAFTBACK! Recreate together your urban space.
What happens when the inhabitants of a neighbourhood are challenged to recrea...
Finding Inspiration in Detroit's Eastern Market
Detroit's Eastern Market is a local food market that draws up to 40,000 visit...
Food As Cultural Exchange.
Culture Kitchen, happening in San Francisco, is a company that organizes cook...
Food Trucks
Each Monday about 10 different trucks arrive in an empty parking lot. People ...
Food Walks - Discover what EVERY city has to offer
The foodies' equivalent of pub-hopping... usually organized for areas that ha...
For urban vibrancy, add nature and a dash of quirkiness
One of the things I love about San Francisco is how nature is woven into the ...
Forget Zoning, Let's Build Multi-Use Public "Third Places"
The public "Third Place," is something that we could risk losing from our mod...
Free Bikes
Paris placed over 10,000 bikes in just 36 hours, launching an ambitious bike ...
Frozen City Waterways Allow for Ice Skating Race
In the Netherlands an ice skating marathon is held between 11 different citie...
Fun, exercise, art
Contrex official commercial brings fun, exercise and art to the city!
Fund Milwaukee (or Your City)
Do you really know where your 401(k), IRA, mutual fund or bank invests your m...
Gangs don't bite
What if we consider gangs in areas of decline, not as a sign of social decade...
Create excitement !
How does it work??
Get the "Sister Cities" practice to a whole new level.
Sister cities is a common practice all over the world. It usually involves so...
GOOD Design + GOOD Ideas for Cities
Since 2008, GOOD has held several public events inviting designers to present...
Grasshoppers and jumping high
When grasshoppers are put in to a jar, they hop high, hitting their heads on ...
Green Map System
Green Map System is a great open-source website which allows users to post up...
Greening 28004 - Space Bank
Results of a workshop realized in Madrid to promote area regeneration through...
GTECH Strategies: Growth Through Energy + Community Health
GTECH collaborates with struggling communities in Pittsburgh to implement sus...
Health and fitness in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is a vibrant city. Maybe it's the culture, or the climate, or the fa...
Heyrobics in Beijing
Heyrobics is a movement created by a bunch of Swedish sport lovers in Beijing...
Hidden Cities Philadelphia
An initiative to highlight some of Philadelphia's most amazing abandon or und...
High Line of New York City: Abandoned Public Infrastructure turns into Elevated Public Park
After the elevated road structure built in the 1930s for carrying freight tra...
Highlight your city's weirdness
Keep Austin Weird is a great example of what happens when a community chooses...
History + Art
Heighten and exploit any historic elements of the neighbourhood, get city pre...
Hometown Pride
A vibrant city is one in which the people have pride in where they are from. ...
How Healthcare Data can Revitalize a Local Economy
Life Sciences companies are paying billions of dollars annually to obtain Per...
Include Waste
The value of Waste...
Increasing Vibrancy by Incorporating High Growth Industry
"When it comes down to it, a buzzing business community is a metro area's mos...
Incubating Vibrancy to Unlock Restoration
Incubators create both efficiency and innovation by bring together leaders to...
Independent Cultural Centers in Budapest, Hungary
Both Tűzraktér and Gödör Klub are independent non-profit cultural centers loc...
Ingenuity Festival and The Bridge Project
An annual festival in Cleveland takes advantage of otherwise forgotten infras...
Inspiration in unexpected places
There are many surfaces that can be used to create moments of engagement with...
Inspiration Kitchen
Inspirations Kitchen is a very creative and holistic solution to hunger, home...
Inspirational Parking Spots
Parking, especially in big cities, can be a stressful experience. Change a ne...
Inspring Entrepreneurship Among Youth Can Transform Declining Economies
Spain, like several countries, has been facing economic decline, including hi...
Interacting with walls
Vibrancy means interaction. Interaction with others, interacting with spaces...
Investments + Children = Vibrant Future
While making communities vibrant now is an asset, investing in children is a ...
Ioby - In Our Backyards
Ioby is kind of like kickstarter, using the power of crowd sourcing to fund c...
Italian Vibrancy perceived as an outsider
Vibrancy in Florence could be defined as an almost caotic mess. After living ...
Jane's Walk
Building on ideas of Jane Jacobs, gets people to explore their neighborhoods ...
Joining all the Tribes
Two Vibrancy places in Brazil are Augusta street in São Paulo and Lapa in Rio...
Juxtaposition of old and new adds to Joburg's vibrancy
Ernest Oppenheimer Park, relaunched in April 2011, is host to meaningful publ...
Kabul A City At Work Project
Kabul A City At Work is a portrait of a city through its working people. It i...
Kapolcs - Valley of Arts
Kapolcs - Valley of Arts is a yearly week-long cultural festival held in the ...
Kiva Cities: American microfinance nurtures entrepreneurship and community development
Kiva Cities applies microfinance expertise to nurturing budding entrepreneurs...
Learn to dance on a Sunday
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park offer free Lindy Hop classes on a Sunday. It...
Leon Krier's "Doodles"
Architect Leon Krier argues for traditional urbanism and mixed uses as key to...
Lesezirkel - Shared reading
A small example of "Shared Services" is the old fashioned german "Lesezirkel"...
Let bees pollinate the cities
Bringing activities to the city that are normally regarded as agricultural ac...
Let your city Incubate
In Haarlem (the Netherlands) are several creative incubators. Small creative ...
Lighting Strategy
In order to reduce perceived and real crime levels, decorative creative light...
Living Machines in Polluted Rivers
Living Machines are floating gardens that consist of plants that clean and re...
Local Impact Labs
Desis Network is an initiative focused on shaping the talent of the future by...
Loneliness and the city
And this is not only about disabled people. They're just extreme users who ca...
Make something happen
Rethink public space and public expression and invite the community into crea...
Making a phone call to cross communities post-violence
After experiencing violence, you can feel isolated, and scared of people and ...
Map your favorite vibrant places in Foursquare
Right, I'm a foursquare user. And I know I have used it as an example in othe...
Mapping Abandoned Urban Spaces
A project in response to a GOOD Magazine challenge, Green Spot Initiative map...
Mapping New York's Hidden Public Spaces Through Crowdsourcing
A new project asks New Yorkers to discover, rate and ultimately take back the...
Mass Collaboration: Us Now
A must watch video exploring mass collaboration, governments and the internet.
Micro grants can bring a little bit of awesome to any community (Awesome Foundation & others)
Micro grants can have outsized effects, creating small pockets of vibrancy in...
Mobile Food Collective
Archeworks student project created a family of flexible mobile structures tha...
Mobile Microbusiness
Using low-tech, low-capital mechanisms to enable (very) small businesses adds...
Modular Cities / What Does a Nimble City Look Like?
Many cities were developed to thrive on a grid-based system. Electricity is d...
More Parades!
Something about parades makes people happy.
Movable Parks
Parks Exist... can we move them around the cities ?!
Mr. Little Guy - reminding us of the magic all around
Mr. Little Guy lives in a tree in Minneapolis. With a tiny door and a path of...
MuralArts - Community, Connection & Art
MuralArts of Philadelphia uses murals to revitalize dying spaces, connect com...
Music is vibrating
Musical events where all members of communities could participate: whether yo...
Nature: Green Space from Unused Blacktop
Local Code : Real Estates uses geospatial analysis to identify thousands of p...
Nature: West Philladelphia Landscape Project
The West Philadelphia Landscape Project is an action research program integra...
Near West Side Initiative / The Salt District Syracuse NY
Working closely with Syracuse University and community members, the Near West...
New Year's Eve in March?!
How unusual local festivals can help local citizens to care and enjoy more th...
Night market
Close down the heart of the city on a Sunday night and invite everyone to a b...
Night markets!
Street fairs offers people a place to go but also the help the economy by cre...
NOLAbound Invites Visitors to Share Its Entrepreneurial and Cultural Story
By giving 25 selected visitors a unique opportunity to experience New Orleans...
Not your average pie: How a small business revived a struggling town in rural America.
The pie served at PieLab in Greensboro, AL is not just any pie, it offers jo...
Nuit Blanche: Artists taking back the night
Nuit Blanche is an all-night celebration of the arts. Streets shut down to ...
Nurturing vibration through art,
It is not a museum, neither a place for art activities. It is not a street wh...
Occupy Dame Street - Citizen Occupation of the Central Bank Plaza, Dublin
OccupyDame Street is a leaderless, a-political, people’s movement, which stan...
Off with their heads! - Convert abandoned buildings into a network of open public gardens
Remove the tops of abandoned buildings so they are open to the elements. Lay ...
One millionth tower - Interactive Documentary
Filmmakers Katerina Cizek and Mike Robbins point out that millions of people ...
Open City
The purpose of Baltimore: Open City is to generate a discussion about the way...
Open spaces for people to meet
Why not add squares to the cities in order for people to meet more. Some Ital...
Opening the door to radically better city schools
Giving city schools a chance to not just be less bad to actually be better th...
Oral History-Urban Storyteling: StoryCorps & KCRW
Storycorps trucks drive through the streets of America to record, collect, pr...
Outsource to Detroit by GalaxE Solutions
Outsource to Detroit banner - 10+ stories long - placed prominently over Camp...
Paint Your Own Bike Lane!
Community in Mexico City painted their own bike lane for less than $1000
Parklets in San Francisco
Parkets are small community spaces cut out between sidewalks and the street.
Pavement to Parks
Pavement to Parks transform mundane concrete parking spaces around the city i...
Pavements to Parks San Francisco
Pavements to Parks takes excessively wide zones of wasted space throughout th...
People Make It Happen
What's missing from Detroit? People walking down the street!
People Make Parks
People Make Parks helps communities participate in the design of their parks ...
Piano Project Promoting Public Play
"Play Me, I'm Yours" is an internationally roving project that installs piano...
Pop-Up Neighborhood Restaurants
Pop-up neighborhood restaurants have been a great solution to high San Franci...
Portland, Oregon giving points for local patronage
Businesses in Portland, Oregon have created a city-wide incentive program, "S...
Power of public art
In one of the the largest concentrations of commissioned murals, Wynwood, Mia...
Preserving the Character and Culture of the Region
Historic preservation creates jobs and a demand for labor, craftsmen and mate...
Project: Interaction, Teaching High School Students to Design Change in Their Communities
Project: Interaction teaches students that practically everything around them...
Project Row Houses as model to empower neighborhoods to view their community as a 'social sculpture'
Project Row Houses is a model of a neighborhood that is founded on the princi...
Project Row Houses, Houston
Project Row Houses is positioned as a neighbor, as a partner, as a developer,...
Provide meaningful work for those without jobs
With a hard-hit economy, Latvia tries in some ways to make the best of it. Th...
Providing residents of Pilsen, Chicago with a voice
Community voice box is a mobile concept aimed to capture the opinions and fee...
Free to Public Exercise Programs, NYC Parks
Physical activity is a great way to bring vibrancy into public spaces and to ...
Public-private Partnership Rocks
Public-private partnership represents a valuable handle to boost a local econ...
Public space for sharing of Art
Everyone photographs or create art to record a piece of memory, to express a ...
Public spaces as semi-autonomous zones
By bounding a public space, relaxing restrictions in it, and creating communi...
Public Viewing
Watching an icon TV-series together in a bar turns a lazy sunday evening into...
Putting abandoned spaces to use: Building an Art Walk in Detroit
The Detroit Storefront Design Competition (DSDC) has invites local artists to...
Reach for the STARS ***
Aaliyah, Tim Allen, Aretha Louise Franklin, D12, Xzibit, Diana Ross and count...
Real Life Superheroes
Never a bad idea: Invite some Real Life Superheroes to your city! From crime ...
Real social network in the elevator in Russia
If you live in a big building's appartment and have a problem with getting to...
Reborn from its own history
Every place has its own history, though it may face decline in economic, popu...
Rebuilding Greenburg Kansas
After complete devastation a city rebuilds itself as a strong vibrant communi...
Redefining Community
A generation of choices facing a challenge to keep their identity. The import...
Redeveloping Cities. Revisualizing Cities.
Cities are not only experienced spatially, but also visually. How a city is ...
Reduce ownership dependency
Most of us spend lots of money over the course of our lives accumulating stuf...
Reengage with Storytelling: the Moth
The Moth storytelling competition is open to the public and held at local bar...
Reinstating Vibrancy
I think attracting new talents/resources is vital to any form of a revitalisa...
Renewing Oakland's Uptown district
Over the past several years Oakland has renewed historic buildings in the upt...
Renovate, Reuse and Revive
Brownfield land of urban cities are the greatest opportunity for renovate, re...
Restaurant Day Helsinki
Restaurant Day is a day when anyone is encouraged to open their own pop-up re...
Restoring Vibrancy Without Losing Soul
The importance of restoring vibrancy without losing the soul of a community.
Reverse Graffiti
Speaking of graffiti and inspiration anywhere reminded me of this video I saw...
Revitalising Johannesburg's CBD
Under Apartheid rule during the 1980s, the white population in Joburg's CBD m...
Revitalising Melbourne's Laneways
Lane ways have long been the back door of our cities - dirty, empty and negle...
Ruth and Mockbee's Rural Studio makes the everyday more beautiful and useful than ever.
"Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul." —Mockbee ...
San Francisco POPOS
San Francisco’s privately-owned public open spaces (POPOS). Getting to know t...
Sarai’s Cybermohalla project
Sarai’s Cybermohalla project is in collaboration with Ankur: Society for Alte...
Schönherz Matrix
"The electric engineering and computer science students of the Budapest Uni. ...
School for Women empowerment.
In Basauri next to Bilbao, is the 1st school for womens empowerment. The proj...
Serenbe: "Urban" Utopia
Serenbe is completely self sustained town just south of Atlanta, GA. In addit...
Share & Trust
We don't mind to share, but do we trust what other people share? How about th...
Sharing bicycles
City of Brussels provides bicycles stations across the city inviting people t...
Sister Cities: Boulder and Kisumu
Sister Cities International facilitates collaboration between cities to help ...
Sky on Fire
Last summer, the town of Poznan, Poland saw its citizens release over 11,000 ...
Skyline of Trees
New York City and the New York Restoration Project organizes the initiative, ...
Slumming it - community exists if there is purpose.
I have never pictured a slum as a good example of what a vibrant community sh...
Small Business Saturday
An initiative to inspire shopping at local businesses, "Small Business Saturd...
Social Bycicle
A concept to push the use of public bike to reuce pollution having fun and wi...
Socializing NOLA as a hotbed of social innovation
New Orleans has long been known for its flair for the musical and culinary ar...
Soup on the High Line
A couple of weeks ago, the High Line in New York conducted a social soup expe...
Space to Gather brings together people, information, talent and exchange.
A strategically located open space inspires gathering & brings forth a stage ...
Avoid Divides
2.5 billion people continue to live below the poverty line. We live on a 1.5 ...
Squeek
Get in touch with people nearby. If you want to chat with someone who is actu...
Staro Riga, Festival of Lights
Staro Riga is an annual festival of lights in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Th...
Stars Hollow - what can we learn from a fictional town?
The fictional town of Stars Hollow was an amazing vibrant place, filled with ...
Start a community store
From a story in the New York Times: A town in upstate NY created its own depa...
Stockbox Grocer
In Seattle, vibrancy comes in a box. Stockbox Grocery is a prototype shippin...
Stockholm Jazz Festival - live street preview!
In the upcoming weeks to the Stockholm Jazz Festival, a pink bright piano was...
Street Art: Public Displays of Affection
One of my favorite moments to date is stumbling upon the following street art...
Street markets in small town
This story came from Suzdal (a small town in Russia). Every summer people of ...
Street Party for Bikes- No Cars Allowed
CicLAvia is an event in Los Angeles where the city closes down miles of stree...
Such a strange vibration...people in motion...people in motion
My experience in San Francisco was that of the song, entitled, "If you're goi...
Sunshine commerce
Nairobi doesn't fall into the category of once-great-but-declining-cities. Bu...
Sydney Laneways Art program is a surprising utilisation of empty spaces
Allowing artists free rein to make public art in disused alleyways and lanes ...
Take a step back
Is there a causal relationship between vibrancy and economic outlook?
Take to the Streets
As evidenced by some of the inspirations already provided, an essential eleme...
Tear Down Old Structures for Open Space and Recycle Wood, Bricks, etc.
This conversion process tearing down derelict homes and other buildings is in...
Technology For Good by Ericsson
Technology For Good is a Facebook initiative started by a bunch of Ericsson e...
The Alchemy of Urban Poverty / Profit
During the day, decaying downtowns are filled with unemployed poor residents ...
The BETTER BLOCK Project - getting communities involved.
The Better Block: A Planning Tool for Urban Retrofit The “Better Block” proj...
THE CITY AS ENERGY SUPPLIER
Use the energy produced by citizens to supply the cities electricity needs.
The City Museum in St. Louis
Think "Urban Disney Land"
The City Solution
A recent National Geographic article points to Seoul, South Korea as an examp...
The Corner Store/Market Re-Defined.
How can inner-city neighborhoods be revitalized and livable, while not destro...
The Detroit-Berlin Connection (City Exchange Programs!)
The Detroit-Berlin connection is a radio show that seeks to describe the fasc...
The Eden Project
The Eden Project transformed an abandoned clay pit into the world's largest g...
The Good Gym
The Good Gym connects exercise with community work, motivating people to get ...
The Happiness Initiative: Innovating towards vibrancy via better definition & measurement
It's said that "you can't manage what you don't measure." So in wanting to re...
The Indie-Rock Club Behind Omaha's $100 Million Creative Boom
This story from planet money is awesome. It explores how Omaha accidentally ...
The Living Classrooms Foundation
Living Classrooms Foundation strengthens communities and inspires young peopl...
The Neighbourhoodie Project
The Neighbourhoodies was run as a collaborative research and student project ...
The People's Budget: Citizen's Deciding How $$$ is Spent
Giving people power to decide how tax dollars are spent can increase the effi...
The Plaza: The Living Room of a City
The plaza is a place of encounter. It's a place to walk, to see, to hear, to ...
The right store / La tienda justa (Colombia)
The right store "Just what you want, just what you dreamed of, just what we w...
The Ruins of Detroit
Rekindle what once was? or Re-imagine what could be?
The Thrill of Risks and the Role of Government
I don't like to get too political, but the role of government in creating and...
The Trey McIntyre Project
The Trey McIntyre Project brings professional dance and vitality to Boise, Id...
Thinking about Vibrancy in smell
Inspired by smell and memory. how might we redesign the smell of a city??
Third Thursdays
A temporary street fair in Pittsfield Mass every summer third thursday allow...
Traditional Festivals Bring Vibrancy to Local Communities
Seasonal festivals held by Japanese local shrines or temples bring vibrancy t...
Transforming residential streets to urban courtyards
Decrepit, unused space can be a hazard - or an opportunity. By closing off re...
Turn streets into bicycle paths on sundays
The vibrant city of Guadalajara Mexico turns 25km of streets into bicycle onl...
Turn vacant buildings into collaborative havens for creative entrepreneurs ("hackspaces")
Take vacant buildings and make them entrepreneurial hot spots by allowing cre...
Turning Cleaning Into Works of Art
An artist and a movement who are turning our definitions of both graffiti and...
Turning public space to neighborhood squares, plaza and gathering places using City Repair example
City Repair engages neighborhood residents in placemaking transforming road i...
Ugly Indians - Inspiring change in Bangalore
Came across this awesome civic group in Bangalore called Ugly Indians. Ugly I...
Uncharted Footpaths
The best way to get around Helsinki is not via roads and sidewalks but rather...
Understanding what Vibrancy means for the city and helping them to get there
Create an organisation that can apply a participatory approach to sense what ...
Urban Farming
Imagine using your backyard as a productive space to grow food, maybe even ra...
Urban Farms: Growing together, building community
Hayes Valley Farm in San Francisco raises awareness around sustainability and...
Urban Green Line: Connecting communities with green spaces and sustainable organisations
It's a network that connect and mobilises people, organisations and businesse...
Urban Growth Boundaries
Urban growth boundaries act to control sprawl and to consolidate public servi...
Urban Pollination: Using Diversity to Create Vibrant Cities
The Urban Pollination concept suggests that in order to have a strong, vibran...
Urban Public Health through Mapping
Visual and spatial research, analysis and interventions to promote community ...
Urban Revitalization via "ArtPrize" art competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan
There are many aspects to the design and principles behind ArtPrize that othe...
Use Branding
New Yorkers will complain that Sex and the City changed Manhattan forever, bu...
vertical forests
this image immediately made me think of the blown out windows in Detroit - Im...
Vertical Forests: Taking it to the next level!
French consultancy the Ginger Group created this fanciful proposal to illustr...
Vibrancy according to...
The fracking debate in upstate New York and Pennsylvania raises the question ...
Vibrancy and interaction
It's amazing to watch how people interact with city objects and doing that th...
Vibrancy: beyond surviving, thriving. Macroeconomic principles, microeconomic applications.
All cultures have the potential for vibrancy, but in order for a culture to b...
Vibrancy comes from a sense of shared ownership
City spaces of there own can not be vibrant or full of energy. Cement, glass,...
Vibrancy in Google Images
A simple thought experiment, what does Google Images show us when we type "vi...
Vibrancy in places
vibrancy in rural places by urban community by knowledge sharing
Vibrancy is sense of togetherness
When I think about a 'vibrant' community, I think of the Mission Community Ma...
Vibrant Food Cycles
Food is power. It's the way communities get our energy.
Vibrant People
Vibrant communities consist of vibrant people.
Vibrant streets and exercise
In London designers suggested the inhabitants of Camden to skip the bus or wa...
Visionary developers take derelict buildings in Toronto and transform them into vibrant art center
About a decade ago, in my home town of Toronto, a 150 year old distillery tha...
Visioning the role of sustainability in the future of American cities
How we act now to live sustainably and reduce environmental degradation will ...
Optimism from a Piano Staircase in Sweden
An unexpected surprise greets everyone on their way out of the subway: a pian...
Want Vibrant Cities? Empower Women.
Programs aimed at fostering collective action among women at the grassroots l...
Weekend Sherpa: Get to know the outdoors!
Weekend Sherpa is a free, weekly online publication that provides recommendat...
Wellbeing Vs GDP
When Gross Domestic Product is an index to measure the economic progress, som...
What if real public space could be managed by citizen online?
Just a crazy idea . But it makes sense somehow.
What is Vibrancy? Maybe it's a sense of place.
A sense of place gathers people together; when we find ourselves rooted in pl...
When people wake up and move, there is vibrancy
Since the 15-M, people movements for change in Spain's political system are a...
Who can I confide in when times are tough?
It's easy to share good news with people. But when you experience what you v...
#whOWNSpace
An online initiative arising from the Occupy Wall Street movement that questi...
Why Istambul is such a vibrant city?
Just coming from Istambul and found this city increasingly vibrant. Here I am...
Wind Water, Restoring a City's Life Force
What if wind and water contain the secret? In English, the Chinese character...
You and Me
Match film makers with community projects and organisations that are doing in...