Very few of us have a mental model for the macro conditions that we are living through right now. We have been through economic downturns, but most of us haven’t lived through a pandemic. I am an optimist and I know that we will get… Read More
All posts tagged “street life”
Video: New York 1911
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently restored and published a “documentary travelogue” of New York City from 1911. It was originally filmed by a Swedish company, called Svenska Biografteatern, that went around the world filming noteworthy places such as Niagara Falls, Paris, Monte Carlo,… Read More
Place is dead anyway
Aaron Renn has a few observations up on his blog from a recent trip to San Francisco. Number 2 is as follows: “A curiously low energy city. It’s tough to judge any American city’s street energy after living in New York, but San Francisco felt basically dead.… Read More
Life below zero and underground
A few years ago, I was touring a friend from the US around Toronto’s Financial District and the first thing he said to me was: “You have no retail.” And that’s certainly what it might look like at first glance. But there’s actually lots of… Read More