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- Today’s Moment of Idealistic Naivete: Wikileaks
- Ending the War on Drugs
- The Most Walkable Cities in the World
- It’s Where We Live
- Can Cities Feed Themselves?
- French Street Artist Wins TED Humanitarian Prize
- Dimanche Sans Voiture
- Are Brussels and Los Angeles Sister Cities?
- Masdar begs the question: What exactly is meant by “a sustainable city?”
- Is Generation Y Passing on Cars?
- Can Cities Make Us Crazy?
- Stranger Studies 101: Cities as Interaction Machines
- Does New Orleans Have an Identity Crisis?
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Category Archives: Science
It’s Where We Live
Home, by Yann-Arthus Bertrand. A stunning photographic exploration of our own backyard, a surprising amount of which I felt like I was seeing for the first time. The whole movie is here…
Can Cities Feed Themselves?
Urban agriculture fascinates me, so I thought I’d share links to a few articles in case anyone else is also fascinated… {image is from third article) From Warehouses to Urban Farms The history of urban agriculture should inspire its future … Continue reading
Can Cities Make Us Crazy?
{photo source} Another article from The Atlantic…this one examines the connection between the urban environment and schizophrenia. I tend to ignore articles that seem anti-urban, but I don’t think cultivating a skewed, partisan view of the city is especially healthy. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Livability, Science, Sustainability, thinking, urban planning, What if?
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Neuroscience and the Buddha Mind
If meditation can actually make minds and bodies healthier, could the same approach be taken with cities? What if, as a supplemental process to traditional quantitative analysis, planners and urban shapers meditated on their city? What does it mean to be that city? Would such a process reveal truths typically unseen? Continue reading
Posted in Auto Independence, Culture, Josh Grigsby, Science, thinking, urban planning, What if?
Tagged automobile-centric, buddha, dalai lama, dogma, neuroscience, urban planning
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Coral Reef Extinction Could Cripple Nations’ Economies
Coral reefs are dying, and scientists and governments around the world are contemplating what will happen if they disappear altogether. The idea positively scares them. Coral reefs are part of the foundation of the ocean food chain. Nearly half the fish the world eats make their homes around them. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide – by some estimates, 1 billion across Asia alone – depend on them for their food and their livelihoods. If the reefs vanished, experts say, hunger, poverty and political instability could ensue. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Science, Sustainability, What if?
Tagged acidification, Asia, brian skoloff, carbon emissions, Climate Change, coastal development, coral, coral reefs, economies, extinction, fish, fishing boats, Florida, food chain, global warming, Huffington Post, hunger, international union for the conservation of nature, political instability, pollution, poverty, rising sea temperature, west palm beach
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