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A review of innovative financial tools to sustainably underwrite future cities(thinkthinkthink.substack.com)
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by dbaboci 6y ago
Could you elaborate why the quote you mention is a faux pas. I think from the evolution / morphogenesis perspective he describes how constraints (i.e. gravitational, energetic) shape and direct the space state. Lewontin (also affiliate
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by dbaboci 6y ago
Maybe should have clarified in text: the "very interesting..." bit doesn't come from the author. It's just something that sounded off to me. Even adding the Moon or the Great Pyramid would still leave a large gap in betw
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by dbaboci 6y ago
I think the research in the field is fairly limited - which might make the book sound limited, but I didn't really see any picking of cherries, rather than very few cherries to pick from :). Also West makes it pretty clear what he thin
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by dbaboci 6y ago
Hehehe true. The graph is from the book, it might be mislabeled. I think it represents the change from average walking speed (which is 1.3 - 1.8 meters / second)
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by dbaboci 6y ago
From my perspective the point of the book is to shed light on some of these macro trends that are not typically intuitive. So we expect walking speed to be random, but it is driven by the population of a city. So a lot of decisions in busin
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Scale is a fantastic book on the hidden order of complex systems(thinkthinkthink.substack.com)
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Cities as social and economic generators of success that churn prosperity(thinkthinkthink.substack.com)
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Informality is entropy to formal design; a war of attrition against abstraction(thinkthinkthink.substack.com)
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Cities as Complex Systems: Lever Points, actions that have outsized consequences(thinkthinkthink.substack.com)
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Architects should incorporate feedback loops as living elements of urban plans.(thinkthinkthink.substack.com)
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by dbaboci 6y ago
Alain Bertaud addresses cities as labor markets in Order Without Design. A talk a bit about it here: https://thinkthinkthink.substack.com/p/the-15-minute-city-th... Most importantly however cities serve as highly effic
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Semi-permeable boundaries are critical to preserving urban diversity(thinkthinkthink.substack.com)
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by dbaboci 6y ago
heh, reminded me of these big beautiful boxes CD games used to come in.
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Cities are living entities always changing and adapting to new environments(thinkthinkthink.substack.com)
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