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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
- Generation Gap
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting it makes you an environmentalist.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can get permitted quickly and get building quickly.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue comes up, because it's the only universal strategy that works.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020