'urban ecosystems' Tag

• More musings on urban renovation

  January 31, 2020

  A friend of mine — also an avid reader of The Economist magazine — and I used to joke that articles in that magazine often end in a responsibility-free admonishment along the lines of, “Somebody should do something about this.” Recurring readers of this blog will smile that I’m guilty of this behavior too, I […]

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• Musings on advanced urban ecosystems

  December 4, 2012

  For the second time in a month this weekend, fortune had it that I caught one of the brand new trains on RER B. I’ve long suspected that one of the reasons that keeps Paris below other world-class cities in various rankings (such as the recent 11th out of Startup Genome’s Top 20 Startup Ecosystems) […]

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