Whether they benefit from visionary leaders, flourishing social enterprise, or commitment from community activists, the following 10 cities are well worth a visit to experience their transformation and resilience.
The glimmering computer screens may look cool at night, but this picture was taken at an indoor shopping mall before the store opened. Apple can do better.
Maté may be the preferred choice of the too-cool-for-school crowd in North America, but it is part of daily life in South America. And now its farmers are going organic.
Today, September 16, is PARK(ing) Day, which calls attention to the need for more open spaces in our urban environments, and to improve the quality of the neighborhoods in which we live and work.
San Jose’s Japantown is worth a visit for several reasons: quaint shops, the Victorian homes, and most especially, its retro business signs.
Earlier this month PG&E awarded Brocade Communications Systems a $US2.1 million award for Brocade’s 125,000 square food data center in San Jose.
You would not intuitively place Starbucks and mid-century architecture in the same sentence, but occasionally the coffee giant genuinely blends in well within neighborhoods outside of its Seattle base.
“Do you know the way to San Jose? They’ve got a lot of space . . .” – Burt Bacharach, sung by Dionne Warwick Okay, that song’s a bit dated. (more…)