We couldn't have asked for more from the Livability Challenge than to leave our host city with the inspiration and momentum captured by this column in NUVO Newsweekly, Indianapolis' alternative newspaper.

In reflecting upon our ambition for the challenge - to make beauty, in the form of art, good…

Tweeting from the Livability Challenge in Indianapolis, CEOs for Cities president and CEO Carol Coletta had this to say:

•    100 Acres, the Indianapolis Art and Nature Park, is a stunning asset. It must be connected to the city's trail system.
•    Think of the city as…

The Indianapolis Star published this great photo this great photo Livability Challenge participants biking the famed Indianapolis Cultural Trail. When asked after the tour concluded what he thought, The Trust for Public Land president Will Rogers quipped, "Why are we here?" Clearly this is a city that has…

Beauty makes such a difference in the human experience.  And it's readily available to any city.

This is Millennium Park's Lurie Garden last weekend.