If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.Kurzweil started us off today with what he probably felt was a hope-filled presentation about where technology is going. While he didn’t make the connections with urbanity too well, his points were thought-provoking, nonetheless. I condensed it down to this:
Technology (a term Kurzweil [...]

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Brrrrrrrr.
It’s snowing here in Denver. Two days ago it was 75 degrees, today, its freezing. How does that happen? Levi and I are here for ULI’s Fall Annual Conference. Its THE conference for all urbanist developer/planner/architect types and its pretty cool stuff, if you can overlook the fact that the dominant demographic is white, 40+, [...]

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The other night, a new friend directed me to the TEDTalks page on the TED website which has downloadable videos of speakers from the last few years’ conferences in Monterey (which bring together “more than 1000 thought-leaders, movers, and shakers). I could have spent all day watching them.
So far my favorites include…
Most Beautifully Presented: Jacqueline [...]

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Community Meetings are the part of my job that simultaneously get me the most excited and the most nervous. I go in with all sorts of competing flutterings in my tummy. I have this strong background in community work and this major desire to work with and for and in the community around me so [...]

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