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A Dear Landlord Letter on Health
To the real estate owners of the world: Unless buildings empty out in a business crisis, building managers will soon use digital sensors to track how people use spaces. By the t... ...read more
The Mystery of The Commons
Like many thousands of educated Americans, I began 2012 by getting used to co-working. This means nothing about working collaboratively with teammates, which I still do much les... ...read moreRise of the “Planet B” of the Urbs
A round of climate-treaty negotiations that ended last week in Durban seems a whirlwind away from the bleary discussions in city halls across America about which jobs and which ... ...read moreJob Creators Who Like Flowers
Yesterday, with no input from sniveling movie producers or rioting by football fans, America’s biggest city unveiled a wide flowery tree pit on the grotty edge of a chich... ...read moreGreen Designers Work Well With Others
Thanks to the New York Times’ new architecture critic’s columns hoisting the flag for civic-minded urban design, folks have been asking me if design’s social m... ...read moreThe City’s Big Next Industry: The City
(Disclosure: I have worked with or sought work from every entity in this column, and I’m friendly with most of the principals. So I must mean what I say.) With shirtsleeve... ...read moreSchumpeter Springs A Leak
The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street and climate change, normally not forces likely to zig together, have creatively destroyed the theory of creative destruction. Joseph Schumpe... ...read moreSomething Even Cooler Than a Touchscreen
Steve Jobs melded many American business ideals. As inventor, inspiration, lone wolf and comeback artist, Jobs became a one-body operating system. You could look at him many way... ...read moreThe Mermaid’s Leftovers Can’t Make Much More Than Fish Feed
The flatscreen TV in my apartment complex’s gym told me this morning that Starbucks plans to drop collection boxes in select outlets soon, for coffee-grabbers who want t... ...read moreWhat the New Yorker Forgot About the Future
On the fair Manhattan morning of September 12, I got around to reading the twinned essays in this week’s New Yorker that consider whether America’s health must keep ... ...read moreFollow Us
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