SFMTA collects ideas to address safety on 6th St in SF’s Central Market.
Safer 6th Street is a collaboration between SFMTA, District Supervisor Jane Kim, SPUR, Twitter, and URBAN SPACEship. To complement traditional planning forums, the coalition launched an interactive street activation campaign.
Streetplans organizes an event to map DIY street seats in NYC.
After creating StreetSeats.org, Mike Lydon and Justin Brandon used Neighborland to gauge interest in a mapping party, and then planned a group event to map DIY seating in lower Manhattan.
SCMS helps reforest the St. Claude corridor in New Orleans.
St. Claude Main Street donates $2500 to the “Reforest St. Claude” campaign and canvasses the corridor to identifying businesses that may want to buy a tree to go in front of their building.
popuphood gathers new ideas for revitalizing Oakland.
popuphood fuels citizen-driven urban development with ideas collected online and in the streets, at Oakland’s monthly Art Murmur festival.
UP Festival spreads innovation in San Francisco and beyond.
The Urban Prototyping Festival attracted thousands to the streets of SF to see the work of select artists, architects and technologists. UP then took the ideas to Neighborland to help the innovations spread everywhere.
TEDxIndianapolis builds community.
A local, self-organized edition of TED in Indianapolis engages attendees with a Neighborland photo booth to unleash ideas for improving the city and foster a sense of community.
N-Judah Project collects hundreds of ideas in San Francisco.
To build strong support for the beautification of a busy street corner, a coalition of community groups and city agencies use Neighborland to build awareness and capture residents’ input.
Supporters of the Food Truck Coalition in join the debate at city hall in New Orleans.
Food truck operators and residents join up at city hall to show support for reforming laws to help the growing New Orleans food truck population.
URBAN SPACEship designs ways to spark more social interactions in NYC.
A group of urbanists, planners, and designers meet to create innovative installations designed to encourage more social interactions in public spaces.
Bike Easy rallies for complete streets in New Orleans.
150 neighbors gather to create mock bike lanes demonstrating strong public support for adding safe bicycle lanes in a major New Orleans street renovation.
Chacha finds more places to grow public fruit trees in San Francisco.
60+ neighbors want more public fruit trees in San Francisco. Cacha Sikes has created an inventive way to grow tree seedlings on city fences.
National Gardening Association funds community greening in Memphis.
The NGA awards the “Smart Mules” for their idea to “harvest” blight from abandoned lots to compost and use as mulch for an urban farm.
Casey installs pedestrian wayfinding signs in San Francisco.
To encourage walking in the city, Casey helps start a meetup to install Walk [Your City] signage that’s designed to change perceptions of how close things are by foot.
Joel helps make public transit easier in New Orleans.
140+ neighbors supported an effort to open public data so developers, like Joel, can build smart apps to make transit more predictable.