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http://www.institute-ny.org/
The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies is a think tank and study center in New York City that seeks to study the impact of architecture on everyday life in the city and foster new and innovative ideas in the field of architecture.
http://www.christianvisionproject.com/
The Christian Vision Project is spending three years (2006-08) asking big questions about culture, mission, and the gospel, and highlighting Christian leaders who model faithfulness, creativity, and commitment at a crucial moment in the history of the church.
http://www.thematthewshouseproject.com/
The Matthew's House Project seeks to develop places in which faith and culture can be explored. We seek to promote a different sort of listening. This sort of listening fosters active participation in the public square, inspiring criticism, reflection, and creative expression. We are a rag-tag group of writers that hail from all around and present here to offer conversation about what we believe and what drives us nuts.
http://www.citylights.org/
City Lights is a monthly coffee introducing citizens of Atlanta to the city's urban ministries. The city's business, professional, community and ministry leaders meet to bless, encourage and help locate resources for people and organizations making a difference in Atlanta. City Lights is sponsored by The Atlanta Resource Foundation. ARF focuses on bringing relationships, encouragement, potential volunteers, and a little publicity to worthy causes where our neighbors are served and our city is strengthened.
http://www.ideasthatmatter.com/index.php
Ideas That Matter produces a wide range of events to stimulate public discourse concentrating on issues related to cities, economies and the values of diversity, community and public good. Founded in 1997, the work of Ideas That Matter is inspired by the wide-ranging ideas and principles of Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961); The Economy of Cities (1969); Cities and The Wealth of Nations (1984); Systems of Survival:A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (1992); The Nature of Economies (2000); and Dark Age Ahead (2004).
http://www.pps.org/
Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities.
http://www.livable.com/
Partners for Livable Communities is a non-profit leadership organization working to improve the livability of communities by promoting quality of life, economic development, and social equity. Since its founding in 1977, Partners has helped communities set a common vision for the future, discover and use new resources for community and economic development and build public/private coalitions to further their goals. Partners promotes livable communities through technical assistance, leadership training, workshops, charettes, research and publications. More than 1,200 individuals and groups from local, state, national, international, public and private and media organizations make up Partners’ resource network and share innovative ideas on livability and community improvement.
http://www.ttf.org/academy
The Trinity Forum Academy introduces young leaders to the vision of entire lives lived as a response to God’s calling, and lived towards the renewal and transformation of society. The college experience today is often one in which knowledge is fragmented, faith is privatized, and authentic community is difficult to find. In contrast, the Trinity Forum Academy aims to provide recent graduates with a holistic experience that encourages them to bring their faith to bear on all areas of their lives. The Academy is a nine-month residential learning community for emerging leaders (one to four years out of college), situated on the beautiful campus of Osprey Point Retreat and Conference Center. The goal is to help them discern the contours of God’s calling to Christian discipleship and to pursue that calling throughout their life’s work.
http://www.cultureshapescommunity.org/
Culture Shapes Community recognizes and encourages neighborhood based arts and cultural organizations as unique stakeholders in poor neighborhoods experiencing economic and demographic shifts. This is accomplished through programs that search out and make use of neighborhood identity and public space, that promote social integration among mixed-income and mixed-race residents, that offer opportunities for upward economic mobility and that empower all to have a strong voice for fair and equitable neighborhood change.
http://thegoodcity.wordpress.com/
The Good City is a Fort Wayne, Indiana website about city, culture, and church. The site features several good articles, links, and blog entries about achieving the well-being of the city of Fort Wayne. The Good City encourages conversations to awaken Christians to renew their city with the neighborly goodness and love of Christ.
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