“the self-destruction of diversity” = Gentrification
http://www.nathanstorring.com/2014/10/29/jane-jacobs-on-gentrification/
Month: November 2015
“It’s a difficult situation: We have an affordable housing crisis in the city right now, and the priority isn’t on social justice; it’s about this aesthetic economy.”
Deborah Leslie, a geographer professor at U of T, has studied the city’s transformation as manufacturing gave way to industries in line with the “creative city” agenda. Artists, she fears, end up as a symbolic salve to nefarious process. “While Artscape is doing important work, I think it is often being used to paper over and gather support for broader processes of gentrification and real estate development in the city,”
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2013/11/23/artscape_youngplace_school_is_now_in_session.html
Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones – An engineering professor takes online-course critics to school.
http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/why-virtual-classes-can-be-better-than-real-ones
“Radio is writing for the Ear; Newspapers is writing for the Eye.” …my para-re-phrasing of Peggy Noonan on CBS This Morning
“Business without Bankruptcy is a little like Christianity without Hell” – Michael Hlinka on CBC Toronto Metro Morning quoting a business executive whose name he can’t remember.
Original Quote: “Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.” — Frank Borman
https://twitter.com/IslamBank/status/661151130278371328
The Twelve Networking Truths
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925
“…The magic is this: As soon as you stop acting like you need every single vote, you can earn the votes of the people you seek to serve.”
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/11/election-day.html
“Why revolution is no longer possible” – Byung-Chul Han 23 October 2015
“The tough logic of capitalism prevails even at the heart of the sharing economy. As nice as it may be to share, no one gives away anything for free.”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/byung-chul-han/why-revolution-is-no-longer-possible
People who succeed against the odds all have one thing in common
http://qz.com/536610/people-who-succeed-against-the-odds-all-have-one-thing-in-common/
“Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place….” – Rumi
https://twitter.com/Elif_Safak/status/660823709754761217