What is the #1 most significant implication of the new geotagging option in Twitter? It enables you to tell people where you are in real time, right? WRONG. It's more significant than Google Latitude, Loopt, or other "presence" applications. Why? Because one of the most intriguing opportunities created by Twitter's new option for geotagging one's ...
Category Archives: Urban Planning
Dickson Despommier on Vertical Farming
Overfarming + Global Climate Change = radical reductions in worldwide food production. Where will we grow the food we need to eat? Dickson Despommier argues that urban farming in skyscrapers are the future of food. A few days ago in the New York Times, Despommier presented his idea for vertical farming in skyscrapers. ...
10 Great Books about New York City (nonfiction)
Here, for your interest, are my picks of 10 great nonfiction books about New York City, in no particular order: City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York by Jack Newfield and Wayne Barrett