GOOD Ideas for Cities: Designing Guerrilla Bike Signage
How to make a city’s streets more comfortable for bikers? A team from New Orleans went ahead and installed their own bikeway signage.
From our Migration Issue: Let the Right Ones In
New Orleans is transforming from a stagnant backwater struggling with white flight, brain drain, and urban blight—not to mention two hurricanes, an oil spill, and a recession—into a city where the number of people starting businesses is 28 percent higher than the national average. Tax credits have brought in video game, bioscience, and tech companies, diversifying an economy long dependent on tourism, shipping, and oil. The city’s $600 million film scene ranks right behind Los Angeles and New York City. Business leaders and economic developers are hustling to rebrand New Orleans as a destination for the young and creative, talking up its reputation for small business, great food, and unique music.
Wire Actor Is Starting His Own Grocery Store Chain
After seeing most grocery chains refuse to set up shop in low-income New Orleans neighborhoods, actor Wendell Pierce—a New Orleans native best known for playing cigar-smoking detective Bunk Moreland on The Wire—decided to take matters into his own hands. Pierce is starting Sterling Foods, which will have locations exclusively in poor communities.
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