Recovering bureaucrat and urban futurist.
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To draw travelers, digital nomads and new residents, cities need a new Department of Hospitality for the remote work age, write @levkushner and @Greg_Lindsay bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @CityLab
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Interesting. Online shopping hurts new product discovery, compared to in-person shopping.
Real world = serendipity
This looks exactly like the (currently disastrous) Powell Street BART Station in SF, which goes to show you how much housing policy impacts spaces like these.
Copenhagen South will open in 2024 and become a new hub for:
🚇 Metro (1 direction)
🚊 S-Train (3 directions)
🚆 Intercity and Regional trains (4 directions)
📸 @ramboll and GottliebPaludan
Lev Kushner retweeted
Any artists out there want to design similar inspirational 'propaganda' posters for the clean energy transition?
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Dumb question: could you convert Westfield mall to a university campus? Turn every store into a classroom, the walkways in between become common space… – at San Francisco, CA
Insightful piece on the new frontiers AR opens up in cities by my friend @Greg_Lindsay. Should AR uses be taxed? How can cities ensure public safety? The different approaches cities take could have massive impacts on the lived experience of residents. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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WFH is shifting city centers activity from daytime to nighttime. WFH employees are heading into town after work, particularly on Friday and Saturday night.
For example, New York financial district restaurants have doubled night-time spending share since 2019.
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Owner of SF's Largest Hotel, the Hilton Union Square, Is Walking Away, Surrendering It to Lender sfist.com/2023/06/05/owner-o…
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The internet’s ability to deliver rapid-fire national attention to every local controversy that occurs in a giant country makes federalism really really really hard to sustain. – at United States
We need clarity on when human contact is valuable during the ritual of commerce.
For low-value transactions, customer service is valuable up front to advise decision-making (clothing, meals, etc.). For high value ones, human hand holding during the actual purchase is critical.
Too many restaurants have it backwards with QR code menus and paper checks.
Pulling up a menu on your phone to zoom in and out of a digital PDF, when printed paper exists: absurd
"scan this code to find and pay your check whenever you want": brilliant!
nytimes.com/2023/05/22/dinin…
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"We live in a noisy world where it's increasingly hard to predict which cultural products will resonate. Online, this problem is solved by producing lots of content and seeing what sticks. Offline, it's much harder to experiment or change course. Every mistake is expensive."
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New office buildings are doing better than old ones. But old buildings are easier to convert to residential.
As more new buildings suffer from remote/AI, they'll be in even bigger trouble than old ones.
Even as US commercial real estate comes under pressure, smaller offices in suburbs, as well as newer buildings in central businesses districts, could be more insulated from the stress, according to Goldman Sachs Research. click.gs.com/hpdj
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New report from US Surgeon General: The US is in a profound loneliness crisis.
Every measure of population-wide friendship, companionship, and social fitness is is worse than it was 20 years ago.
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Montreal installed 40 outdoor coworking spaces in neighborhoods across the City complete with free WiFi and charging. A great way to activate the streetscape while providing new community third spaces and drawing daytime activity back into commercial districts.
