What do you do when living your ideals feels impossible?
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Oftentimes, people in rural settings drive long distances to bigger towns to find community engagement. This renovated soda fountain shop shows why it’s worth looking for that sense of community a little closer to home.
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Philadelphia is a great place to visit, but not because it’s a great place to park. City officials don’t seem to see it that way, though, given the recent restrictions placed on its outdoor dining program.
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Baltimore’s department of transportation is considering making the city’s temporary outdoor dining “parklets” a permanent fixture.
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Our Neighborhood Storyteller visits her hometown to both mourn and celebrate the changes that have happened there over the years.
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A visit to a home restaurant in Rovinj, Croatia, shows the kind of small businesses and good urbanism that we could have in the U.S. if we just relaxed our zoning codes.
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Don't let your city's leaders backtrack on good urban design practice because of the pandemic.
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The suburban development pattern has been putting enormous pressure on small businesses for decades. Now with the pandemic, the razor’s edge of survival somehow got even narrower.
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Three restaurant workers—a bartender, owner and server—help us better understand how the coronavirus is impacting the restaurant industry.
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Many small businesses are in the fight of their lives. Here are 8 practical tips on how to get the right things done on their behalf...and ours.
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A new study shows that car-dependent cities have fewer independent restaurants. This not only makes our places weaker, it makes them less interesting too.
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Marian Liou is the founder of We Love BuHi, a social enterprise organization, that helps to showcase local ethnic restaurants and works with restaurant owners to build a better neighborhood.
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Good restaurants are essential to neighborhood success, and here are four reasons why.
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