The Perfect Neighborhood

What makes a model neighborhood? GOOD Magazine devotes an issue to the topic, beginning with a list of traits that make a neighborhood great.

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April 16, 2010, 12:00 PM PDT

By Tim Halbur

Top of their list? A signature event.

Patrick James writes, "There's nothing like a recurring event to celebrate and shape a neighborhood's identity-though everything needn't be as massive as, say, Munich's Oktoberfest. Anything works-from the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, to 1st Fridays in the Abbot Kinney neighborhood of Venice Beach, California, to the annual ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan-as long as it gets people out of their houses and interacting."

Human scale, third places, and diversity all make the list.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 in GOOD Magazine

Community / Economic Development United States Neighborhoods

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