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THINK PIECES ARCHIVE


How Urban Design can Improve Communities?
Urban Planning and design have an important value when it comes to community. The Edward J. Boustein School of Planning and Public Policy...

Community: How Downtowns are Helping Businesses Reopen
Cities are having to adapt to the new COVID world meaning they can't go slow in changing how they cooperate with businesses in using...

Nature-Based Play and Quiet Play Critical for Holistic and Inclusive Play Environments
#community #learningoutcomes

Games to Foster Systems Thinking
Systems thinking is a way of understanding everything as a system–a network of complex relationships rather than a collection of distinct...

Got Levers: Tools To Optimize Space Use
When an organization grows, the pressure to find more space often grows with it. But adding more building is not necessarily the most...


The Healthy Achievements of Emeryville Center of Community Life
ECCL was awarded the 2017-2018 ULI Global Award for Excellence Winner. Emeryville Center of Community Life (ECCL) consolidates Emeryville...


Stanford Health Care: Enabling a Productive, Healthy and Happy Workforce
The Stanford Health Care Planning, Design and Construction (PDC) team needed to improve its workplace effectiveness and prepare for...


Outdoor Learning for the Complete Child - Hillbrook School
Hillbrook School was founded in 1933 on the belief that the environment rather than genetics raises the child. While working on a campus...

Covid 19 Response: Success in Action - North Monterey County
When North Monterey County Unified School District (NMCUSD) was forced to suspend its in-person learning along with the rest of the...

Urban Futures of The Animal Welfare Campus
Assessing the Vision Like any institution, animal welfare organizations – their shelters and clinics – are affected by outside...

Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital: Solving a Capacity Problem to Sustain Care
In 2008, the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) needed a strategy to address its 12% capacity deficit without compromising patient...

Back to Work: Will Permission Equate to Adoption?
In some form, non-essential people are going back to workplaces that were recently closed. It’s inevitable, and for many necessary....

The Power of Feedback
Confronted with the challenge of a workforce and workspace dispersed across multiple locations, the City of Davis partnered with MKThink...
Going Back to the Office: Embracing "Kick-Ass!"
Linkedin recently published 20 Big Ideas that will shape the world in 2021. One of those ideas was that in order for people to go back to...

Lunch in the Hallway?
Corridors, balconies, elevator lobbies, and staircases function more than mere circulation – at least at the Golden Gate University’s 536...
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