Devon Zuegel

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    17 Sep 2017

    A great city represents "an inventory of the possible"

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    Jul 2

    Soulja Boy on how he got his name out there using Limewire: > I would look at the billboard charts ... and I would upload [my song] to Limewire and title it "50 Cent - In da club", "Britney Spears", "Eminem", etc

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  3. Jul 3

    "A good architect can do some bad projects, but a bad architect will never do a good one."

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    Jul 3

    We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars

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  5. Jul 3

    And nothing so tempting

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  6. Jul 2

    "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." — Peter Drucker

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    Jul 2

    And while we're feeling Nordic, here are rooves (roofs?) in Bergen....

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    Jun 21

    This is such a great project!

    Excited to announce Tools & Craft, an interview series I've been working on with for the past few months! In this first episode, I spoke with Andy Hertzfeld, who architected the operating system of the original Macintosh
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    Jul 2

    Also a history of the Embarcadero. (I had not realized that it had until 2002 a godawful elevated freeway like the Central Artery in Boston which the Big Dig replaced.)

    Fun fact: SimCity was forced to pretend that all parking lots were underground, because the game would be “really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots”
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    Jul 2

    A "New Era" themed subway train is now running in Changchun, China's northeastern rust belt. It's hailed by local gov as a "highly condensed spiritual manual" of XJP Thought and the spirit of the 19th party congress, with a team preaching party propaganda to passengers - in rap

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    Jul 1

    Oxford Road bus stop bypasses. Bus can overtake, stop, and move off without worrying about people cycling. People cycling don’t have to worry about the bus. Everybody wins!

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    Jun 30

    Theory: decentralized protocols are preceded by informal human networks doing same work Pre-Napster, websites linked to free mp3s hosted by others, updating links when those hosts were taken down.

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    Jun 29

    'continuity' of urban fabric: can I walk from point A to point B and be interested the whole time? Yes in Tokyo, Manhattan, central Paris or is the city a bunch of islands, each interesting but surrounded by dead zone of single-family homes (or worse, parking or highways)

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  14. Jun 28

    "Mapping and surveying can only be done with authorization from the State Council" in China

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  15. Jun 28

    "... It uses an obfuscation algorithm which adds random offsets to both the latitude and longitude, with the alleged goal of improving national security." Something something the map is not the territory

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    Jun 28

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  17. Jun 28

    h/t to who originally told me this fact a few years ago. Solid fact

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  18. Jun 28

    Fun fact: SimCity was forced to pretend that all parking lots were underground, because the game would be “really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots”

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    Jun 28

    "Urban planners spent the 20th century building cities for cars, not people, and alternatives to driving have been systemically undervalued" - :

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    Apr 18

    I think about maps a lot, and I'm underwhelmed and unimpressed by a lot of them. Here's one I quite like – world city populations, by luminocity3d. It's always interesting to me to pay attention to the white areas – western China, the Sahara, etc. (Also – upcoming cities)

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    Jun 27

    Great read of "Continuous Urbanization in Japan" by . :) Couple comments and things to add: (1) On the density of tall buildings: one of the larger reasons that we don't see density of tall buildings between Midtown and Downtown is due to the geology of the area...

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