Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In recent years a fundamentally new class of technologies – made possible by developments in hardware, software and networking and informed by social psychology – are enabling the emergence of novel forms of feedback on resource consumption and environmental quality.
During June, [Peter Macfadyen) shared his 10 Tips for Reinventing Local Democracy. Here they are, all gathered together in one place.
I believe it was Oscar Wilde who said: “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
In this talk Sophy looks at the four stories, at the psychological reasons why they’re all important, and the overarching process that links them all. Participants will be invited to explore and develop their own future story.
A roundup of the latest news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere.
Biourbanism considers the city as an organism, but in a different way, because we apply some of the latest developments in the life sciences to architecture.
There are times when the deindustrial future seems to whisper in the night like a wind blowing through the trees, sending the easy certainties of the present spinning like dead leaves.
The tall, old black oak had split right down the middle of its deep, wide trunk.
What do we really want our communities to look like?
Mark, founder of City Repair, helps create gathering places with projects like the famous painted street intersections. Brandy, founder of O.U.R. Ecovillage, discusses overcoming regulatory hurdles like narrow zoning laws by working with agencies to find innovative solutions.
Very few people will read this book without bristling at least once at things Greer says…which I regard as one of its virtues.
With great fanfare…[it] was announced on March 10, 2014 that overall transit ridership in 2013 was the highest since 1956.
