Kevin Bauman – 100 Abandoned Houses
Artist’s statement:
“100 seemed like a lot, although the number of abandoned houses in Detroit is more like 12,000. Encompassing an area of over 138 square miles, Detroit has enough room to hold the land mass of San Francisco, Boston, and Manhattan Island, yet the population has fallen from close to 2 million citizens, to most likely less than 800,000. With such a dramatic decline, the abandoned house problem is not likely to go away any time soon.”
Month: April 2013
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Over half of my emails are calendaring related…so inefficient…which startup is going to solve this problem?
– @shaig (via theinternetwishlist)
Tungle was probably the most promising.
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What It Takes to Create a Start-Up Community
Do you think it’s possible to create start-up communities deliberately? Or do they have to happen organically?
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My own study of the distribution of college graduates in the cities and suburbs of America’s metropolitan areas, conducted with my Martin Prosperity Institute colleagues Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick, finds the concentration of college grads in the urban core to be especially advanced in America’s largest metro areas. Metro areas with more than 3 million people have nearly twice the density of college grads in their center cities than those with populations of 1 million to 3 million. As metro areas grow larger and more congested, more highly educated and affluent people seek more-central locations. When the alternative is hours of commuting on crowded highways and gridlocked streets, more people are willing to trade their lawns, soaring cathedral ceilings, and multiple bathrooms for a more efficient, less car-dependent way of life.
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Globalization and new technologies have increased the returns to being smart.
Ed Glaeser
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Simply put, urban centers are no longer the poster children for decay and despair; they have, in fact, become the country’s economic engines.
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70 Carlton St – Dirt.
My favourite new building proposed for Toronto (by Tribute Communities).
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