Urban Resilience § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM A 2010 Seed Magazine article about resilience and cities. QUOTE The concept of resilience upends old ideas about “sustainability”: Instead of embracing stasis, resilience emphasizes volatility, flexibility, and de-centralization. Change, from a resilience perspective, has the potential to create opportunity for development, novelty, and innovation. As Holling himself once put it, […]
Responsive Cities: Kent Larson at TEDxBoston – YouTube Provocative talk by Kent Larson. Covers “mobility on demand”; land utilization (which is better with shared vehicles); how to get 7 vehicles into the “space” of 1; democratizing access to bike lanes; re-thinking housing by probing development of micro-units and creating “technology enabled infill” (furnishings); approaching apartment […]
Complainers in the Office: 3 Ways to Deal With Them | Inc.com THIS. Might help explain why American voters are getting dumber: they’re listening to too much crap on the media. QUOTE …being exposed to too much complaining can actually make you dumb. Research shows that exposure to 30 minutes or more of negativity–including viewing […]
What the Environment & Mobility Mean for the Nation’s Fastest-Growing Demographic | Project for Public Spaces That last bit, re. the importance of town centers for rural areas, applies (in my opinion) equally to small cities. When cities “fling” their centers out to strip mall locations, they take away a key asset for an aging […]
Rag Drag by Nicole Gelinas – City Journal This is so interesting. Maybe there will be a backlash, and people opt for some “artisan” clothing that lasts? QUOTE As for accessibility and variety, Cline notes that you can’t compare what a nice dress cost three decades, half a century, or even a century ago—a few […]
Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country (They Just Don’t Realize It) – Dan Ariely – The Atlantic Shocking. QUOTE …from the total pie of wealth (100%) what percent do you think the bottom 40% (that is, the first two buckets together) of Americans possess? And what about the top 20%? If […]
You Are Where You Eat: Re-Focusing Communities Around Markets | Project for Public Spaces Rethinking food shopping: QUOTE In most places today, at least in many Western countries, shopping is a chore; our food system has stopped being about food, and has become entirely about convenience. Food spoils, meaning that we used to have to […]
All energy and climate solutions are local | SmartPlanet So true: QUOTE I have long maintained that creating policy around emissions gets the problem backward, by focusing on what comes out of the tailpipe instead of what goes into the engine. We should be incentivizing solutions, not penalizing emissions, because carrots harness human desire and […]
The future of oil prices | SmartPlanet Wake up call. QUOTE The history of oil prices since 2007 suggests that a permanent doubling of oil prices, while possible in theory, are not possible in reality. We have been bumping against the pain barrier since the first oil price spike in 2008. As we substitute more […]
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