December 2011
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Chinese Cities To Build Subways
“The total number of those in China living in cities is nearly double that of the total US population, and a quarter more than that of the European Union. The annual net growth of Chinese urban population ranks first in the world, as does the scale of urbanization.
Among the 655 cities in China, 23 have population exceeding 2 million, and 35 have population of between 1 million and 2...
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“Rents will rise – which is a bad thing. With fewer people buying homes and more people losing their homes to foreclosures, the rental market is only going to get tighter especially in older, dense cities like New York, Washington DC and San Francisco. High rents will hold back economic growth if businesses can’t pay workers enough to have a roof over their heads. Squeezed city-dwellers...
Black Day (Radio Mix) by Northern Lite shared from...
No Ordinary Love by Deftones shared from exfm
US Dept of the Treasury Defines "Abode"
“Abode” has been variously defined as one’s home, habitation, residence, domicile, or place of dwelling. It does not mean your principal place of business. “Abode” has a domestic rather than a vocational meaning and does not mean the same as “tax home.” The location of your abode often will depend on where you maintain your economic, family, and personal ties.
- Department of the Treasury,...
Stanford yanks tech-campus bid
After months of pressing its case to open a tech campus in the city, Stanford University abruptly pulled out of the competition Friday.
In a statement, Stanford President John Hennessy said, “after several weeks of negotiations with New York City, university leaders and the Stanford Board of Trustees have determined that it would not be in the best interests of the university to continue to...
“The hand of the diligent maketh rich.”
– -Peter Cooper
He ascribed “the possession of the wealth he owned primarily to the habits of patient industry which he had formed at the outset of his career. From his early youth he had avoided, he affirmed, alcoholic liquors and the incurring a debt, and he always made it a rule to endeavor...
“The property held by the Cooper Union for the advancement of science and art at...”
– Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC) Saturday, June 05, 1869; Issue 17,712; col C.
That’s some serious increase in value for just a decade.
“Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter …...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837), in The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (New York: Modern Library), 44.
Sweet Child o’ Mine (Guns n’ Roses cover) by Scott...
You Showed Me by The Watson Twins shared from exfm
So much for that.... ;-)
“Accommodations will be afforded in the day-time for the instruction and training of a thousand girls and at night-time for the instruction of a thousand boys, with every facility and free of cost forever.”
- ”The Drexel Institute,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, (New York, NY) Saturday, September 07, 1889; pg. 71; Issue 1773; col B.
(1891) "New Temple of Learning, The Drexel...
“New Temple of Learning, The Drexel Institute: Chauncey M. Depew to Make the Dedicatory Address on December,” Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, (Bangor, ME) Saturday, December 05, 1891; Issue 280; col C.
“The building is in the style of the classic renaissance. It is constructed of light buff brick with terra-cotta ornamentation of a darker color, the base is of rock-faced...
“The most vexing thing in the life of a man who wishes to change is the...”
– Jim Harrison, The Man Who Gave Up His Name (via ariverisariver)
Richard Vedder (2010) wondering "Why Did 17...
Selected from: Vedder, R. (2010). “Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College?” The Chronicle of Higher Education.
“Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them have doctoral or professional degrees), along with over 80,000 bartenders, and over 18,000parking lot attendants. All told, some 17,000,000 Americans with college degrees are doing jobs...
“Harvard is a bit like the rich man who wears scuffed shoes and a frayed collar...”
– (Thelin 2004, p. 359)
“The original plan was that a large undergraduate base reduced per capita...”
– (Thelin 2004, p. 329)
“The ‘hidden curriculum’ of the contemporary university was that...”
– (Thelin 2004, p. 328-9)
““Do you hear that?” I asked.
“What?” she said. “I don’t hear anything.”
...”
– Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy via 52 Hearts
“The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly...”
– Thomas Henry Huxley (via livejamie)
WatchWe couldn’t get the screen capture built into GSA to work… so here’s a low quality iPhone capture of tube 5 of Sendai Mediatheque responding to a lateral force of 500,000N.
Western Global Real Estate Firms Lag Behind Asian...
“The sheer quantity of urban investment is driving the creation if a new generation of professional practices in all aspects of investment, design, development, and management of properties. Recently, a ULI member in Shanghai noted: It is an accepted fact that Western global real estate firms are behind their direct competitors in Asia, both their competitors in Asia Pacific and domestic...
“By 2020, in China alone, 400 cities will have populations over 1 million,...”
– Page 90 of ULI’s “What’s Next? Real Estate in the New Economy”
“David Starr Jordan, by training an ichthyologist, as president of Indiana...”
– Frederick Rudolph (1962) paraphrasing a story from Amos Alonzo Stagg’s (1927) “Touchdown!” p. 198-9
“If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.
If we treat people as they...”
– Goethe
“The quality of any interaction depends on the tendencies of those involved to...”
– Sociologist Charles Derber
“If you just imagine that the person you have just met and are talking to is one...”
– http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2007/03/16/how-to-make-a-great-first-impression/
“The report seemed to drift toward the illogical fatalism that federal monies...”
– (Thelin 2004, 270) commenting on the 1947 report from Truman’s Commission on Higher Education titled “Higher Education for American Democracy”
“”It is especially difficult to look another human in the eye for any period of...”
– Neil Donald Walsch (via sexydevilhuntingclub)
“GI students were typically depicted as worldly and experienced, impatient with...”
– Thelin, J. R. (2004) A History of America Higher Education. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 266.
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I’ll...”
– Algernon in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
Graphs from "Back to the City" post from The...
Back to the City
The above chart “shows the migration values plotted as a index to render them in the same scale. There is still a net out-migration to the suburbs, but the gap has narrowed in these places. Here we see that on the chart with raw numbers:”