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Economic Impact: The City as a Social Portfolio « The Captured Perspective
Great ‘Captured Perspective’ blog post by Peter Boumgarden, who comments on Richard Florida’s Atlantic Monthly piece:
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“…cities are not just portfolios that emerge segmented for risk, but also social entities that respond positively to this differentiation with increased generativity. Cities are not only portfolios, but also social entities where diverse individuals interacting results in additional benefits for the growth of that city, over and above the lower risk of economic failure. In this way, a city might best be conceived a social portfolio.
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Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture — City Farmer News
Post about the exhibition, Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture, February 25th – April 30th 2009 – Free Admission (Opening reception: March 3rd 2009), at Design Exchange, Toronto (website: www.dx.org)
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This exhibition will show how the design of cities and buildings is enabling the production of food in the city.
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SeeClickFix: Report non-emergency issues, receive alerts in your neighborhood
The map includes Canada, but is it used here yet?
Found via CEOs for Cities, who reported:
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It’s a Googlemaps mashup that uses crowdsourcing to report problems to public officials and get them fixed. The start up is located in New Haven where the service is the most developed. There is it used by the Policy Chief, Police Lieutenants, Mayor’s Office, Public Works, Parks Dept, the Town Green Improvement District and, of course, citizens.
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Fine arts are in survival mode as funds dry up – USATODAY.com
“It’s frightening,” says Lockwood Hoehl, BCO’s executive director. “We’re unfortunately at the bottom of the food chain. The general thought about the arts in our society is it’s expendable.”
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Contributing to this catastrophe has been newspapers’ stubborn refusal to consider any news-gathering and -analysis model other than the one that they were used to, one that, most crucially, relegated consumers to the role of passive readers instead of engaged users. It’s a mistake that happens all over the Big Media Debate: misinterpreting the limitations of our print past as prescriptions for our media future.
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