The Archives
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Blog, Cities & Urban Life
21st Century City: A New Geography
There is a great article in the March 2009 edition of The Atlantic by Richard Florida entitled “How the Crash Will Reshape America“. The article looks at how certain cities, notably New York, Charlotte, Detroit, and Las Vegas, have been shaped by the development patterns of the last 50 years and where the cities could [...]
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Blog, Maps
Twittervision
Oh social networking, how you’ve transformed our world. Or not really. More accurately, how you’ve given us more crap we have to check on the internet every 5 minutes. Yes Twitter is fun but I still don’t see the point. What makes even less sense is the vast array of apps that have shown up [...]
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Blog, Boston, Cities & Urban Life
Back in Boston: Part 4
Back Bay and Beacon Hill I am not an early riser. This, combined with going out every night, means that I have been missing a number of presentations I wanted to see, but I’m not concerned with this since I’m finding this whole conference a bit too academic for my tastes. I met up with [...]
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Blog, Boston, Cities & Urban Life
Back in Boston: Part 1
I’m staying with my best friend from high school, Ian. He now lives in Jamaica Plain, near Hyde Sq. He told me to take the Orange Line to Jackson Sq, which I was a little apprehensive about since the last time I checked that was one of the more dangerous areas along the T. The [...]
