分类目录归档：city
So, I have an overlooked but potentially lucrative
investment opportunity for you.
Over the past 10 years in the UK,
the return on burial plots has outperformed the UK property market
by a ratio of ar
This picture
is from my metro card
when I spent a year abroad in Paris in college in the mid-'90s.
My friend says I look like a French anarchist --
(Laughter)
But this is still what I see
when I look
So I'm here to talk to you about the walkable city.
What is the walkable city?
Well, for want of a better definition,
it's a city in which the car is an optional instrument of freedom,
rather than a p
Imagine that when you walked in here this evening,
you discovered that everybody in the room looked almost exactly the same:
ageless, raceless,
generically good-looking.
That person sitting right next
So, raise your hand if you've seen somebody in your city
standing on a corner, holding a sign like this.
I think we all have.
If you're being honest,
at least one time, have you wondered if they mean
Cities are like siblings in a large polygamous family.
Each one has a unique personality and is headed in a distinct direction.
But they all have somewhat shared origins.
Sometimes I think postcolonia
In 2009, I bought a house in Detroit for 500 dollars.
It had no windows, no plumbing, no electricity
and it was filled with trash.
The first floor held nearly 10,000 pounds of garbage,
and that includ
"You don't belong here"
almost always means, "We can't find a function or a role for you."
"You don't belong here" sometimes means, "You're too queer to handle."
"You don't belong here"
very rarely me
On this planet today,
there are about 50 cities that are larger than five million people.
I'm going to share with you the story of one such city,
a city of seven million people,
but a city that's a te
What is our imagery of cities?
When we imagine cities,
we often imagine it to be something like this.
But what if what you're looking at is just half a picture,
but there is a city within the city.
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