03
Feb
Planning By Whose Design – Data or People or Both? Get ready for this. Tech companies are vying to build cities. As described in CityLab’s, article’s, When a Tech Giant Plays Waterfront Developer and Alphabet Announces Plan to Turn Toronto Neighborhood Into a Living Laboratory, Google’s …”Sidewalk Labs” is working with Waterfront Toronto (land owners), and have partnered with government…
30
Jan
It’s Happening… Jacque Fresco, a futurist, imaged a world without suffering and undue poverty and set out to make it happen. He envisioned the Venus Project, a futuristic concept of new cities where people had full access to resources (which he believed was the root of all problems) and began building in 1976. The plan is being carried out by…
15
Jan
So What’s Ford Doing? Roads for cars, not people? The article in Medium”The City of Tomorrow: Together, Let’s Take Back the Streets” suggests, we’re building roads for cars, Not people. We used to spend more time with people, now we spend more time in cars, in congestion, 16 hours vs a whopping 38. In this article, “The City of Tomorrow: Together…