where’s it all going?
Once we stop thinking about streets for cars, you can start to see your community differently. urban farming? more trees? parks? safer for children? Before we can get into those ideas though, we should understand what our streets are, how they came to be and what we might be losing by making rash decisions....
Yellowstone National Park and Montana, summer 2017...
How long until we can really start making design changes to our community as a result of automation? My dad forwarded me a video today -- Why Energy & Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030, and I could tell that it was a bit of an "ah ha" moment for him. We had discussions...
Today I have become the biggest fan of a person I'd never heard of before. Cornelia Dinca (a Calgarian, yet!?!). Her photos of Amsterdam show how quickly a city can change and I believe it's a lesson for all of us in understanding that "inertia" is an over emphasized apathy. Community change is...
One of the basic premises that this project is founded on, is the concept that people are going to want to be involved with their community, developing useful data and dialogue. If you don't believe that can happen to any great degree, I completely understand and probably share most of your doubts.If you do believe...
We've been creating a lot of social media applications at work for the last three or four years and lately I've felt like all this valuable community data lives within unique eco-systems (facebook, twitter, instagram, etc) and isn't effectively shared or compiled. How is facebook helping my community other than letting me know which...