Above: North Hill Better Block in Akron, Ohio, in May 2015. Photo courtesy Better Block. Jason Roberts is founder of Better Block, an organization that seeks to improve cities through rapid, small-scale projects. Knight Foundation is investing $775,000 to help launch a foundation to scale the work. People have grown weary of the traditional city planning processes that lay out 30-year watercolor visions that require billions of yet-to-be […]