Tag Archives: Community Building

Backyard Beans: “A Small, Good Thing”

The last newsletter introduced us to the good that comes from planning (and growing) towns and cities at a human scale. Towns thus planned allowed neighborhood businesses to flourish. Barber shops, mercantiles, restaurants, bars, doctors…all these small businesses, vital to the health and well-being of citizens were also vital to the life of the townContinue reading “Backyard Beans: “A Small, Good Thing””

Back to the Future: Human Centered (Re)Design for the Future of Towns & Cities

These initiatives consider their impact on a much larger geography (the world) and a much larger time frame (designing for the future). Such forward thinking is indicative of people who are concerned about the great good, who understand the necessity for all people to act within the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and who are interested in making the world a better place.

Play Ball!

Last week I published the second edition of the “Do Good Things” Newsletter/blog post. In it, I spoke about the great good work of “Coach Ballgame,” James Lowe. Today, I have the pleasure of releasing the first episode (it’s rough…but beautiful) of our “Doing Good Things” podcast featuring Coach Ballgame. If you have a cupContinue reading “Play Ball!”

Build Design Challenge: Day 7 Prototyping–Fail early, Fail Often

Gentrification was a word I have never heard of until this class, it means that wealthier individuals change poorer areas in many ways. You would think that it is good but that makes everything more expensive, to wealthy people it isn’t a problem but to those less fortunate it forces them to move. With this information provided by builduniversity.org, we began creating a prototype.