KickstARTing Creativity: How Kids Can Thrive in 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! 101 Ways to Thrive in a City with Kids: We’ve tapped designers, policy experts, and our in-house parents for their tips on … Continue reading KickstARTing Creativity: How Kids Can Thrive in a City

KickstARTing Creativity: Building Community Through Public Art


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! Building Community Through Public Art: The murals created by GoodSpace Murals make the neighborhoods in which they’re created more beautiful, of course. … Continue reading KickstARTing Creativity: Building Community Through Public Art

kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Bloated American Dreams, How Walking Helps Us Think, and the New Wave of Public Art


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 Bloated American Dream: The size of the average American house has grown consistently (from 983 square feet … Continue reading kickstART Your Weekend with Some Good Reads: Bloated American Dreams, How Walking Helps Us Think, and the New Wave of Public Art

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

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: 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