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How was there never an episode about Kendall Roy going to Burning Man?
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Lev Kushner
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Recovering bureaucrat and urban futurist.
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To draw travelers, digital nomads and new residents, cities need a new Department of Hospitality for the remote work age, write @levkushner and @Greg_Lindsay bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @CityLab
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Interesting. Online shopping hurts new product discovery, compared to in-person shopping.
Real world = serendipity
alz@alz_zyd_
Super cool paper My tldr: - When you go to the grocery store you buy whatever you feel like, discover stuff, so there's variety - When you buy on instacart, you just buy the same things as last time, so low variety - => online grocery shopping makes product demand less elastic
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Customers' mode of travel
vs.
Shopkeepers' estimate
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This looks exactly like the (currently disastrous) Powell Street BART Station in SF, which goes to show you how much housing policy impacts spaces like these.
21st Century City@urbanthoughts11
Copenhagen South will open in 2024 and become a new hub for: 🚇 Metro (1 direction) 🚊 S-Train (3 directions) 🚆 Intercity and Regional trains (4 directions) 📸 @ramboll and GottliebPaludan
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@MattDoyle76 Oh good.
And while I'm at it, Mikael Uhre has got to be a candidate for face of the week after Jose Martinez's goal today. Hands to face in awe.
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A spokesorca warned any boats thinking about coming to witness the gathering: “$@&% around and find out”
CNN@CNN
Around 30 killer whales were spotted in Monterey Bay over weekend -- with no clear explanation why so many had gathered.
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Any artists out there want to design similar inspirational 'propaganda' posters for the clean energy transition?
Jesse D. Jenkins@JesseJenkins
I've recently started adding old fashioned WW2 propaganda posters to the end of my public talks on the clean energy transition. Why? Because I think we all need more "we can, we will, we must" attitude in our approach to the very real challenges associated with the transitionm.
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Dumb question: could you convert Westfield mall to a university campus? Turn every store into a classroom, the walkways in between become common space…
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Insightful piece on the new frontiers AR opens up in cities by my friend @Greg_Lindsay. Should AR uses be taxed? How can cities ensure public safety? The different approaches cities take could have massive impacts on the lived experience of residents. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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WFH is shifting city centers activity from daytime to nighttime. WFH employees are heading into town after work, particularly on Friday and Saturday night.
For example, New York financial district restaurants have doubled night-time spending share since 2019.
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Tired: off-shoring
Wired: multi-shoring
Dexter Roberts@dtiffroberts
The trend, sometimes called multishoring, is fast becoming the new reality. Apple, for example, is rapidly expanding factories in India but also Vietnam, while shoe maker Crocs is moving production into India, Vietnam, and Indonesia. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p/t…
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@DKThomp This exactly mirrors Prof Steven B Smith's writing comparing nationalism (lone ranger) vs. patriotism (relational). The former is fear based, the latter is founded in self-appreciation and the desire to improve. See his book "Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes"
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Relational masculinity is different. It can live online, but it thrives in the physical world. It says your strength is defined by your relationships, how you make the people closest to you feel. Instead of "don't trust anything", "become the sort of person ppl want to trust."
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New ep: I adored my second conversation with @RichardvReeves about boys & men in America; shifting attitudes toward "feminism"; the reactionary online right; and the rise of an extremely online (and, often, very loner) style of masculinity
open.spotify.com/episode/6PgXav…
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Owner of SF's Largest Hotel, the Hilton Union Square, Is Walking Away, Surrendering It to Lender sfist.com/2023/06/05/own…
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The internet’s ability to deliver rapid-fire national attention to every local controversy that occurs in a giant country makes federalism really really really hard to sustain.
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We need clarity on when human contact is valuable during the ritual of commerce.
For low-value transactions, customer service is valuable up front to advise decision-making (clothing, meals, etc.). For high value ones, human hand holding during the actual purchase is critical.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
Too many restaurants have it backwards with QR code menus and paper checks. Pulling up a menu on your phone to zoom in and out of a digital PDF, when printed paper exists: absurd "scan this code to find and pay your check whenever you want": brilliant! nytimes.com/2023/05/22/din…
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"We live in a noisy world where it's increasingly hard to predict which cultural products will resonate. Online, this problem is solved by producing lots of content and seeing what sticks. Offline, it's much harder to experiment or change course. Every mistake is expensive."
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@drorpoleg it's the middle ones that are truly screwed: too old to be attractive as offices but not old enough to have any charm or convertible floor plates.
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New office buildings are doing better than old ones. But old buildings are easier to convert to residential.
As more new buildings suffer from remote/AI, they'll be in even bigger trouble than old ones.
Goldman Sachs@GoldmanSachs
Even as US commercial real estate comes under pressure, smaller offices in suburbs, as well as newer buildings in central businesses districts, could be more insulated from the stress, according to Goldman Sachs Research. click.gs.com/hpdj
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