December 2011
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“In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the...”
– Amazon Kindle: A Highlight and Note from a Personal Document (via futuramb)
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Are Creative People More Dishonest? - Carmen Nobel... →
Steve Jobs was theorethically channeling Picasso when he said ‘Good artists borrow, great artists steal,’ but he may have been onto something. It turns out that creatives are more likely to cheat, according to new research by Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely:
Francesca Gino
Carmen Nobel via HBS Working Knowledge
Is there a link between creativity and unethical behavior?
There certainly is,...
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TEDx: TED Prize 2012 goes to … The City 2.0 →
For the first time in the history of the TED Prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea. It is an idea upon which our planet’s future depends:
The City 2.0.
The City 2.0 is the city of the future… a future in which more than ten billion people on planet Earth must…
via tedx:
10 urban data visualization projects →
I have just published in my blog a compilation of 10 examples of urban data visualizations.
ITO-Road fatalities USA
Trash track
London Bike Share Map
Examining MetroCard usage
London Hire Bikes animation
Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
Mapumental
Day vs. Night population maps
LIVE Singapore!
In the air
via humanscalecities:
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“Bikes are pretty cool, but if American cities really want to learn something...”
– -Kasey Klimes (via Twitter)
I’ll go ahead and reblog this, not out of vanity but because I mean what I said. It is so easy to make cities for people that considering how often we’ve failed to do so becomes a mind numbing exercise.
I should add: the most dangerous possibility is that we throw up...
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Scientists and Students Fire Off an Open Letter to... →
And architects will stand with you too:
Stand With Science
A Call to Congress to Protect Science Funding
To: The United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
Dear Member:
America’s science and engineering graduate students need your help. Our country is on the precipice: with US finances in a desperate position, upcoming decisions will determine the shape of our nation...