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Archive for September, 2012

City as Organism or Ecosystem

Posted on September 19th, 2012 in Energy, Green Design, Land Use, Listen, New Economy

I love the NPR Cities Project. Here’s an excerpt from just one of their fascinating stories. As our cities have become more complex the physics embodying their behavior and organization has also become more nuanced, subtle and profound… [The] city becomes a vast interconnected system designed for turning energy into work. Seen through that lens, […]

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Creative Class in Love with Cities. Tech Companies Follow.

Posted on September 19th, 2012 in Green Design, Land Use, New Economy

More from Richard Florida, champion of the Creative Class: They shop at Urban Outfitters, they drive a Prius and, you guessed it, they love cities. And who can blame them? Would you rather drive 90 minutes to a heat island of concrete parking lots to enter a low-slung, overly-air conditioned office building, or stroll through […]

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