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Today’s cities face a bunch of hard choices. So, who can solve today’s urban problems? Where will the GOOD Ideas come from?
GOOD Magazine has been bringing creative professionals to the table to solve what they view as big challenges in American cities. Starting in 2008, in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, GOOD asked designers, architects and planners to suggest brand new ideas.
Now, GOOD is collaborating with CEOs for Cities and ArtPlace to bring the endeavor to a handful of smaller U.S. cities. All kinds of challenges are considered -- zoning, education, public transportation, unused spaces, brain drain -- and new kinds of civic partnerships are born. Solutions are presented to live audiences, and are documented in the magazine.
GOOD took the event to Portland, Oregon, and St. Louis, and will soon be in Richmond, Cincinnati, Dallas, and New Orleans. So, could it happen in Connecticut? We’ll talk with people from GOOD, and in St. Louis, who are trying to solve some of these problems.
