This week Strong Towns has been running a great social media campaign called #BuildHereNow. The way it works is very simple. They asked people to get outside and take photos of vacant and/or underutilized properties in their town or city and post them to Twitter… Read More
All posts tagged “digital”
AMYGDALA — An installation that converts social media sentiment into audiovisual art
It’s becoming harder and harder to think of tech as a distinct silo. Tech is embedding itself into so many traditional industries that, one day, every company will probably be a software/technology company in some regards. It’s for this reason that I often think and… Read More
Bringing public transit into the 21st century
https://500px.com/embed.js I think we’ve hit peak millennial. Last Friday the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, and the Metropolitan Transit Authority, announced that 30 subway stations will be redesigned and that “millennial-friendly amenities” would be added throughout the system. As you might guess, this includes… Read More
More than just a coffee shop
Today’s blog post is coming to you live from Quantum Coffee at the corner of King and Spadina in Toronto. I’m sitting by the window (where I keep running into friends) in a beautiful space that used to be an ugly youth hostel. Nice work… Read More
A guide to digital marketplaces
Version One Ventures – which is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Vancouver – recently published a free handbook called, A Guide to Marketplaces. Online marketplaces are really fascinating because they are perhaps broader in scope than you might initially think. For example, Uber… Read More
How technology could completely change the real estate development industry
If you’re involved in the built environment in any way, shape, or form – as a developer, architect, policy maker, and so on – I would highly recommend you watch the video below. My friend Candice Luck, who I went to Rotman with, sent it… Read More