kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Is Your City Child/Family-Friendly?


We highlight here 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. Thinking Creatively About Mass Transit: This may not look like transit to you, but it is the only way we are … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Is Your City Child/Family-Friendly?

kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: On Cultural Districts and Keys to an Attractive City


We highlight here 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. Cultural Districts as Community Connectors: Those working in cultural districts (should) constantly mold their programming, projects, and policies to meet the unique … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: On Cultural Districts and Keys to an Attractive City

kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Small-Town Sustainability and the GFFF Announcement


We highlight here 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. Greater Farmington Film Festival Announces Lineup: Films that touch on the topics of human trafficking, the power of music, and more will … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Small-Town Sustainability and the GFFF Announcement

kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: On the Film “Red” and a Love Letter to a City


We highlight here 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. How to Paint a “Love Letter” to a City: He says he hopes that people will be inspired by the work … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: On the Film “Red” and a Love Letter to a City

kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Parking, Transit, and a Renovated Theater in Farmington Hills


We highlight here 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. How Walking, Biking, and Mass Transit Move Us Toward a Brighter Future: Transportation accounts for 25 percent of household costs in … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Parking, Transit, and a Renovated Theater in Farmington Hills

kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Valuing Experiences Not Things, Pedestrian Safety, Walkability, and Businesses Supporting the Arts


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. Spending Money on Experiences, Not Things: Overall well-being can be advanced by providing an infrastructure that affords experiences—such … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Valuing Experiences Not Things, Pedestrian Safety, Walkability, and Businesses Supporting the Arts