kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Celebrating Public Art, Holistic City Agendas, and the Creative Economy


Our Friday update here at kickstART farmington highlights some great articles we’ve read this week dealing with art, creative placemaking, and building great communities. You’re sure to find some inspiration to make your life and our community even better! 1. Celebrating Public Art: A recent trip to Chicago on the first weekend of summer reinforced the importance of … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Celebrating Public Art, Holistic City Agendas, and the Creative Economy

kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Sticky Streets, Environmental Art, Taxes for the Arts, and More


Our Friday update here at kickstART farmington highlights some great articles we’ve read this week dealing with art, creative placemaking, and building great communities. You’re sure to find some inspiration to make your life and our community even better! 1. The End of Sprawl?: Rents for commercial spaces in walkable districts inside otherwise car-dependent suburbs command a 74 percent … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Sticky Streets, Environmental Art, Taxes for the Arts, and More

kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: On Transit in Suburbia, Neighborhood Schools, Climate Change, and Artist Organizers


Our Friday update here at kickstART farmington highlights some great articles we’ve read this week dealing with art, creative placemaking, and building great communities. You’re sure to find some inspiration to make your life and our community even better! 1. Transit in the New Suburbia: Dublin, Ohio, … has rezoned 1,100 acres to create the Bridge Street District, a … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: On Transit in Suburbia, Neighborhood Schools, Climate Change, and Artist Organizers

kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Designing Spaces for People, Art and Walking, and Little Free Libraries


Our Friday update here at kickstART farmington highlights some great articles we’ve read this week dealing with art, creative placemaking, and building great communities. You’re sure to find some inspiration to make your life and our community even better! 1. On Partnerships Between Business and the Arts: Employee art shows, concerts, or other artistic challenges … are a … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Designing Spaces for People, Art and Walking, and Little Free Libraries

kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Making Cycling Safe for Children, Eliminating School Buses, the Benefits of Street Performers, and More


Our Friday update here at kickstART farmington highlights some great articles we’ve read this week dealing with art, creative placemaking, and building great communities. You’re sure to find some inspiration to make your life and our community even better! 1. No school buses in a suburb?!: The city(‘s) … seven elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school are … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Making Cycling Safe for Children, Eliminating School Buses, the Benefits of Street Performers, and More