PBS’s P.O.V. series presents Utopia Pt. 3, The World’s Largest Shopping Mall, a 13-minute film on the South China Mall in central Dongguan, a city of 6 million north of Hong Kong. More than twice the size of the Mall of America, the mall is like Las Vegas and Disneyland combined — except that it…
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Geotagging Tweets: Putting Sticky Notes on the Real World
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…
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. In the…
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 Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs The…
Ground Zero and the view from the Irish Hunger Memorial to St. Paul’s Church
Yesterday I went to Federal Hall to see the proposed plans for Ground Zero, and I came away angry and disappointed. Sure they were uninspiring, but the main problem I found is that the architects clearly had no idea what they were doing. Of course, the entire “planning” process for the site is ridiculous. The…
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