Articles by Sarah Goodyear
Sarah Goodyear has written about cities for a variety of publications, including Grist and Streetsblog. She lives in Brooklyn. She's also on Twitter.
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Garden designer Lynden Miller says a healthy city needs beautiful parks
"Every human being responds to a connection with nature," says Lynden Miller, who has designed many of New York's most successful public gardens. "People of all kinds love something beautiful and will talk to each other when they see it. They change the way they behave. It changes the way they feel about themselves and each other."
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Some tips on city-fixing from people who should know, in New Orleans
Five years after Katrina, the people of New Orleans can be damn proud of the progress they have made. So listen up. They've learned some things about fixing their city that you could stand to know, even if you're not living in a disaster zone. Or if you're living in a place that just looks and feels like a disaster zone -- say, a crumbling Rust Belt city, or a foreclosure-gutted subdivision.
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Cafés will be popping up on the streets of New York
The New York City Department of Transportation is going to make it easier for you to park your rear end at a sidewalk café by taking away a bit of parking for cars.
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If you want a model city, fix the one you've got
Cities achieve greatness because they are containers for difference -- places where people and ideas bump into each other, where assumptions are constantly challenged, where classes and attitudes rub shoulders and jostle each other. So how do we make cities smarter (in the sustainability sense) without building a world of sterile municipalities from the ground up?
