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by saeranv 12y ago
Oh, also apparently the iconic 'hands-up, don't shoot' gesture from the Ferguson protests has migrated to Hong Kong: http://www.vox.com/2014/9/28/6860493/hong-kong-protests-mike... . That&#
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by saeranv 12y ago
The Ferguson protests are a good example. It's already resulted in some sweeping changes to their municipal court system[1], which has been described as, "One Big Shakedown Racket Targeted at Black People"[2]. These are chang
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China’s Pearl River Delta: Tying 11 Cities into a Megaregion(urbanland.uli.org)
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Wikihouse: Open source, digitally manufactured, house [Live feed](wikihouse.cc)
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The most detailed map yet of our place in the universe(vox.com)
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Deep Habits: Pursue Clarity Before Pursuing Results(calnewport.com)
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by saeranv 12y ago
I'm a little confused about what I would be learning here. What exactly are the "tools, methods and frameworks" which is being taught, and are there any prerequisites before I can jump in? It looks like the only way I can loo
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Why haven't China's cities learned from America's mistakes?(theguardian.com)
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by saeranv 12y ago
YES. I think regulation is a huge problem here, there's all sorts of mandatory parking requirements, maximum height restrictions, lot ratios etc etc. And it's not just requirements encouraging sprawl - the opposite happens too, li
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by saeranv 12y ago
Yeah, that's inevitable. From the same source I cited above, average densities (people/hectare) for European cities range 50-130, American cities have 5-40, and the far East has 160 - 275. When I say historic European cities are a
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by saeranv 12y ago
In a large part, yes - creating large squares, avenues, decongesting dangerously crowded slums. I believe it was Pope Pius IV who did something similar to Rome retroactively imposing an urban structure onto the city by creating main avenues
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by saeranv 12y ago
The article mentions anti-development being conflated for anti-gentrification: " In San Francisco, residents who resist gentrification do it by blocking the development of new, high-density housing projects. They imagine that the city’
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by saeranv 12y ago
Ballmer's weirdly suited to be owner of the Clippers. Coming in to Eminiem's 'Lose Yourself', practically hysterical with excitement is kind of cool. Much, much better than Sterling. If the owner couldn't be Magic J
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by saeranv 12y ago
I think they are fearful and it must be stressful to have to do an admittedly dangerous job under immense public scrutiny, media attention, and the disillusionment of their communities they're supposed to serve. But Ferguson's dis
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by saeranv 12y ago
Agreed. I'm also taken aback by the recordings of unprovoked hostility from the cops. To reporters, mind you. If this is how they are acting towards the media, how badly are they treating the minorities in their communities who have li
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Ferguson’s citizen journalists revealed the value of an undeniable video(theguardian.com)
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Letter from David Simon (creator of The Wire) to Chief of Police of Ferguson(davidsimon.com)
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In proportion? One party has armoured personnel carriers, grenade launchers, tear gas cannisters, rubber bullets and M-16s. The other has fireworks, homemade rockets and projectiles from the street. There are ways of controlling looters wit
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by saeranv 12y ago
The more charitable interpretation here is that the cops may actually be perceiving everyone as acting much more hostile than they actually are. The cop's perception is being filtered through their own fear and implicit bias. There&#x2
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by saeranv 12y ago
The local police seem pretty incompetent here: Bringing in tanks, aiming assault rifles at unarmed protesters, and an injudicious use of tear gas and rubber bullets. They're treating civilian protesters like enemy soldiers. See more he
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by saeranv 12y ago
Thank you. I'm also waiting for Ta Nehisi Coates take on all of this, but he seems to be away from his blog for a while.
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by saeranv 12y ago
Hah, good point. This has funded a 10 year, $200-million scientific investigation in mapping and exploration of the Arctic seabed. Cite: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-orders-n...
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Canada launches mission to map Arctic seabed(bbc.com)
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by saeranv 12y ago
I think the design logic you have now takes care of this. When I zoom out all the way, I can only see the label of Pluto, not the actual sphere - and that works fine. Personally, it was appealing for me to be forced to scroll and zoom aroun
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by saeranv 12y ago
And more from Michael Batty* along the same lines: http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/archives/2138 *Michael Batty: urban planner, geographer who has written extensively on computational urban modelling.
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by saeranv 12y ago
This is a lot of fun, I enjoy seeing the relative distances/rotation of the planets from eachother. It's a little disappointing that the planet/sun scales seem to be very off, it takes away from the overall simulation. But th
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Against the Smart City (2013)(urbanomnibus.net)
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NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before(nasa.gov)
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Protocells and Natural Computing with Rachel Armstrong(frmlab.com)
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A city is not a tree – Christopher Alexander(rudi.net)
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