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Move Urban · 7M ago

NYC’s online guide to conscious urban living: City Atlas

As Rachel Northrop, the Manhattan Green Living Examiner, shares: If you’re looking for something more productive to do online than comment on Youtube’s latest viral cat video, check out City Atlas, the web’s newest portal to living sustainably in New York … Continue reading →
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Move Urban · 9M ago

Better Living Through Art

The first leg of the BMW Guggenheim Lab is launching in New York on 3 August. The think tank-slash-art installation is part of a six-year, nine citywide enterprise that aims to better urban living through arts collaboration. “We’re using the … Continue reading →
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Move Urban · 9M ago

Brooklyn Grange: Rooftop City Garden

Rooftop gardens are gaining in popularity in dense urban areas. Check out this cool video about urban rooftop farmers in New York City – the 40,000-square-foot rooftop garden in Queenseven has chickens and beehives (and is the largest rooftop farm … Continue reading →
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Move Urban · 9M ago

Creating Authentic, Healthy Neighborhoods

This post is quite interesting, as is the whole Dom’s Plan B blog it comes from. What is Plan B?  “Plan B” refers to the growing need for our communities and our nation to forge a dramatically new path if … Continue reading →
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Move Urban · 9M ago

Creating Healthy Human Habitats

How do we create the best human living conditions in cities? Dr. Howard Frumkin, dean, School of Public Health, University of Washington, asked the audience at the National Building Museum’s Intelligent Cities forum to imagine they were zookeepers and just … Continue reading →
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Move Urban · 10M ago

Publish your Essay on Urban Living!

Would you like to publish your thoughts about the urban lifestyle? Urban Essays invites you to do just that. Email a copy of your essay to essays@urbanessays.org. The best essays will be displayed on our website. Essays can be submitted … Continue reading →
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Move Urban · 10M ago

Urban Living Is Greener

Wired Magazine reports: To many Americans, ecological nirvana is a bucolic existence surrounded by wilderness. But the Thoreauvian desire for more elbow room has led to sprawl, malls, and cougar attacks. The edge-city upshot is a national cadre of 3.5 … Continue reading →
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Move Urban · 10M ago

Tips on Buying an Urban Loft

From HGTV Front Door comes these great tips for buying urban: Tired of long commutes and suburban sprawl? Join the thousands of homebuyers flocking to the urban core. Find out what it’s like to live downtown, tour urban areas across … Continue reading →
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Move Urban · 10M ago

Urban Living Is Greener

Wired Magazine reports: To many Americans, ecological nirvana is a bucolic existence surrounded by wilderness. But the Thoreauvian desire for more elbow room has led to sprawl, malls, and cougar attacks. The edge-city upshot is a national cadre of 3.5 million “extreme commuters,” who spend more than
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Move Urban · 11M ago

Get around town on a Yike Bike!

People hunting for urban transportation solutions might want to get familiar with the YikeBike, a miniaturized version of the original Penny-Farthing bike. Only this mini-farthing bike is powered by a battery and can be folded into something the size of a … Continue reading →
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