{"id":5691,"date":"2014-01-26T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2014-01-26T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T17:15:05","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2014\/01\/26\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-207\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2014\/01\/24\/gardiner_at_the_crossroads_hume.html\">Gardiner Expressway at the crossroads: Hume | Toronto Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">This article is about an expressway in Toronto, but Christopher Hume&#8217;s closing sentences apply to so many other places and situations: low expectations, self-perpetuating, lack of will to re-invest&#8230;<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nA reason was the low expectations Torontonians had for that part of town. It is viewed as a wasteland, largely because that\u2019s what it has been for so long. Ironically, the Gardiner is at least responsible for that.<\/p>\n<p>But as the waterfront comes back to life, it\u2019s time to demand more. People now live in neighbourhoods that until recently were industrial.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/toronto\">toronto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/christopher_hume\">christopher_hume<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/highways\">highways<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urban_design\">urban_design<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urban_renewal\">urban_renewal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/thestar\">thestar<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/frans-v--houten-calls-for-a-shift-toward-a-new-economic-model--based-on-the-use-of-goods-that-consumers-do-not-own\">Frans van Houten calls for a shift toward a new economic model, based on the use of goods that consumers do not own. &#8211; Project Syndicate<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">A Circular economy: selling a product&#8217;s benefits instead of the product itself&#8230;<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nWith this in mind, my company is redesigning its products and considering how to capture their residual value. At the same time, it is shifting from a transaction- to a relationship-based business model \u2013 one that entails closer cooperation with customers and suppliers. And it is changing its corporate culture to emphasize long-term solutions. None of these changes is easy to implement, but all of them are necessary.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/economies\">economies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/economy\">economy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/economic_development\">economic_development<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/circular_economy\">circular_economy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/davos\">davos<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/leasing\">leasing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/renting\">renting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/167887\/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-homeownership-rates\/\">Most Germans don\u2019t buy their homes, they rent. Here\u2019s why \u2013 Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Interesting historical background here:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nEconomists think German housing policy struck a much better balance between government involvement and private investment than in many other countries. For instance, in the UK, when the government gave housing subsidies to encourage the building of homes after the war, only public-sector entities, local governments, and non-profit developers were eligible for them. That effectively squeezed the private sector out of the rental market. In Germany, \u201cthe role of public policy was to follow a third way that involved striking a sensitive balance between \u2018letting the market rip\u2019 in an uncontrolled manner and strangling it off by heavy-handed intervention,\u201d wrote economist Jim Kemeny, of the German approach to housing policy.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/germany\">germany<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/housing\">housing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/affordable_housing\">affordable_housing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/renting\">renting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2014\/01\/will-influential-ui-design-minority-report\/\">Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report | Wired Design | Wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Ok, but we&#8217;re still being mediated *by* technology, subtly primed to respond to its dictates. Would be interesting to think about how that manifests in a supposedly more people-oriented computer technology as depicted in Her&#8230; (I&#8217;m just thinking about this in the terms laid out by Ursula M. Franklin, viz. growth-oriented and production-oriented technologies, whereby the former is holistic, people-centered, and the latter is geared toward efficiency and fulfilling the needs of production.)<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not just that Her, the movie, is focused on people. It also shows us a future where technology is more people-centric. The world Her shows us is one where the technology has receded, or one where we\u2019ve let it recede. It\u2019s a world where the pendulum has swung back the other direction, where a new generation of designers and consumers have accepted that technology isn\u2019t an end in itself\u2013that it\u2019s the real world we\u2019re supposed to be connecting to.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/film\">film<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/spike_jonze\">spike_jonze<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/her\">her<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/userinterface\">userinterface<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/design\">design<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2014\/01\/why-do-smartest-cities-have-smallest-share-cars\/8173\/\">Why Do the Smartest Cities Have the Smallest Share of Cars? &#8211; Derek Thompson &#8211; The Atlantic Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Is it true?<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nThe Atlantic has called &#8220;peak car&#8221;\u2014not once but twice. We have repeatedly explained why young Americans &#8220;don&#8217;t care about owning&#8221; a vehicle. We predicted a long-term decline of auto sales, and, in a dramatic moment, essentially announced &#8220;the end of car ownership,&#8221; generally.<\/p>\n<p>We had strong data. Perhaps we had strong biases, too.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cars\">cars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardiner Expressway at the crossroads: Hume | Toronto Star This article is about an expressway in Toronto, but Christopher Hume&#8217;s closing sentences apply to so many other places and situations: low expectations, self-perpetuating, lack of will to re-invest&#8230; QUOTE A reason was the low expectations Torontonians had for that part of town. 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