Honestly a shame. Genuinely descent ideas in terms of building science and urban design. 11/10 chance the technology elements would have gone the way of the Go

Honestly a shame. Genuinely descent ideas in terms of building science and urban design. 11/10 chance the technology elements would have gone the way of the Google Grave yard after 10years, but at least it will leave a set of interesting buildings to draw lessons from. Now nothing. Lots will stay empty or be filled with generic condo developments with questionable longevity. The Google branding and Silicon Valley outreach style didn't help. Simultaneously, the inability for western societies to at least entertain rapid urban experiments is going to backfire. I'm not a big fan of Google, but they have fuck you resources and at least tried to direct it in prosocial designs with the expected cost of privacy. If they can't succeed in Toronto then it doesn't bode well for anyone else. It also reveals a greater cultural problem... On Cultures That Build https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-cultures-that-build.html https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-cultures-that... IT’S TIME TO BUILD https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/ https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/