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Fast Company May 2009 Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: San Francisco Bank on San Francisco |
Fast Company May 2009 Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: Chicago Chicago's Smart Card seems almost too simple: one card that gives access to the trains, buses, and a local car-sharing program. |
Fast Company May 2009 Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Vancouver, British Columbia The host of the 2010 Winter Games is going for green, using its big moment as a chance to catalyze change. |
Fast Company May 2009 Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Taipei, Taiwan Taipei is striving to achieve "zero landfill, total recycling" by 2010, 30 years ahead of the UN's trash targets. |
Fast Company May 2009 Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Malmo, Sweden After recession nearly wiped out Malmo's industrial base in the 1980s, the city has had a chance to start over, creating eco-friendly neighborhoods of transformed tenements and old shipyards. |
Fast Company May 2009 Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Philadelphia Philadelphia's Mortgage Foreclosure Protection Program uses door-to-door outreach, free counseling, and meetings between those on the brink of losing their homes and their mortgage lenders to keep people in their houses. |
Fast Company May 2009 Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: Houston Despite a weakening real-estate market, development around Houston's Discovery Green is still strong. And, of course, the park is appropriately earth-loving, recycling its water and waste and drawing 100% of its power from renewable sources. |
Fast Company May 2009 Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Cleveland Reimagining a More Sustainable Cleveland Initiative |
Fast Company May 2009 Anya Kamenetz |
Fast Cities: New Orleans The recovery of post-Katrina New Orleans has unleashed a new generation of social entrepreneurs. A sterling example is the Broadmoor Improvement Association. |
IDB America January 2005 Charo Quesada |
Rediscovering Their Home Town Underprivileged children in Bucaramanga, Colombia, learn about their city's cultural riches. |
Fast Company May 2009 Ellen McGirt |
Fast Cities: Tucson Mayor Robert E. Walkup has turned Tucson into a place where health and public safety aren't an afterthought, but an integral part of municipal planning. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Nov/Dec 2006 Alon Barzilay |
Designing a Masterpiece A Philadelphia commercial real estate developer plans a condominium project for the city's cultural center near Logan Square. |
IDB America February 2006 Charo Quesada |
Support for Caribbean Art New cultural programs provide fresh outlets for the creative talent of artists in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. |
Fast Company May 2009 Ellen McGirt |
Fast Cities: New York In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has built the most successful local counterterrorism unit in the U.S. and perhaps the world. |
TIME Asia May 16, 2011 Hannah Beech |
Party Piece After a long, $380 million refurbishment, China's National Museum fully reopened in April. It is now the biggest in the world, with 1.05 million cultural relics spread over 192,000 sq m of floor space |
BusinessWeek August 15, 2005 Ellen Hoffman |
The Fine Art Of Dining Museum eateries are emerging as destinations in their own right, with museums both domestic and abroad climbing on the chuckwagon -- in Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, St. Louis, London, Paris, Tokyo, and elsewhere. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 25, 2015 Michael Blanding |
Britain's Tate Galleries Win the Internet What happens when the traditional museum-going experience meets the world of digital marketing? Meet the Magic Tate Ball and other wonders from the online version of the Tate museums. |
D-Lib September 2002 |
Australian Museums & Galleries Online Australian Museums & Galleries Online serves as a portal to Australia's cultural heritage, providing a single web site entry point to a large percentage of Australia's museums and galleries, as well as preserving and promoting Australia's cultural identity worldwide. |
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Susan Garland |
On The Road--With Your Favorite Museum The Tanzanian safari is one of about eight tours led each year by Field Museum scientists. This sort of tourism, though not new, is poised for growth as the baby boomers approach retirement. |
Fast Company July 2008 Clayton Neuman |
Democrats in Denver; Republicans in St. Paul Both parties chose states that will be crucial battlegrounds in November. |
D-Lib November 2005 Kenneth Hamma |
Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility Making visual reproductions of public domain art works available online for use and reuse without charge would likely benefit the collecting institutions and would contribute to the public good. |
D-Lib September 2005 |
Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement: Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections Museums have seen an opportunity to move beyond uni-directional communication into an environment that engages their users and reflects a multiplicity of perspectives. |
Fast Company May 2001 Scott Kirsner |
Seattle Reboots Its Future The leaders of the city that Bill Boeing and Bill Gates built are asking what it will take to thrive in the 21st century... |
BusinessWeek December 11, 2006 Jessi Hempel |
The Science Of Smart Giving Squeezing the most good from large-scale donations takes serious planning. Here are five success stories. |
Registered Rep. January 12, 2011 Charles Paikert |
Luminous To Expand Beyond California Luminous Capital expects to open an office in Austin by the end of the year, said Mark Sear, founding partner of the firm. It also plans to open a new office in Denver, Colorado, though no date has been set. |
D-Lib May 2003 Tanner & Deegan |
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage in Europe The authors explore and report upon the pricing practice and policy for the transition to digital for a wide range of cultural and heritage organisations. |
Inc. May 1, 2002 Mike Hofman |
The Inner City 100 The Inner City 100, year four. The fastest-growing businesses based in some of America's poorest neighborhoods continue to fascinate us... |
CIO July 15, 2005 Michael Fitzgerald |
Magical History Tour Museums are using new technology to provide interactive maps, personalized guided tours, instant messaging and location tracking features on specially designed handhelds. |
AskMen.com January 16, 2003 Peter Fueller |
Top 10: Museums Of The World There are thousands of museums around the world, many of which are worth visiting. However, you probably don't want to spend your entire vacation looking through endless collections of paintings and sculptures, created by artists you've never even heard of. You want the famous stuff, right? |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2004 David Mattison |
Looking for Good Art Part 3: Glorious National Collections With an unimaginable wealth of art digitally accessible and preserved for us and future generations by art history institutions outside the U.S., the international Web of the Western art world is truly one of the most remarkable achievements of our digital age. Here links to directories and guides. |
D-Lib December 2004 David Green |
How Fares the Wired Museum? Report on the 32nd Annual Conference of the Museum Computer Network which has been a leading agent in museums' use of computers from improving operational efficiency to animating collections and connecting them to a wider world. |