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Tech Launched A Big Push To Fix Cities. What Happened?

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, affordable housing shortage, airbnb, backyard, ben huh, cavnue, cheezburger, Ford, GM, google, greg lindsay, heavy timber framing, i can haz cheezburger, manufactured housing, manufacturing, memelord, memes, modular housing, nithin vejendla, platform economy, quiet pivot, Richard Florida, samara, sidewalk infrastructure partners, sidewalk labs, silicon valley, social construct, startup, sustainable cities, tech, tech startup, waste, y cities, y combinator, Y-Combinator, yc

Sidewalk Labs (Google), AirBnB, and Y Combinator all launched ambitious initiatives to build the technologically advanced, equitable, sustainable cities of tomorrow. What happened?

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The Wealth Gap, Scarcity Thinking, and the Coming Robots

July 19, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments automation, domestic manufacturing, Donald Trump, economy, Made in America, Manu Saadia, manufacturing, negative income tax, New Urban Crisis, Poverty, Richard Florida, Scarcity, Treknomics, ubi, universal basic income

President Donald Trump announced this week as Made in America week, showcasing and promoting domestic manufacturing. He played in a

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Richard Florida on Optimistic Urbanism versus Pessimistic Urbanism

May 23, 2017May 23, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bernie sanders, Bruce Katz, creative class, equitable urbanism, hillary clinton, liberalism, Marxism, Mike Davis, neoliberalism, Richard Florida, urbanism, urbanization

Richard Florida had a recent interview in the Chronicle of Higher Education where he continued to unpack the fraught complexities behind

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Greenbuild to Canfield Green: The Missing Link of Social Equity in Sustainability

December 4, 2014August 10, 2017 Nat Zorach 0 Comments black lives matter, Canfield Green, Darren Wilson, ferguson, greenbuild, Michael Brown, Richard Florida, rick fedrizzi, sustainability, sustainable architecture, sustainable design, sustainable planning, usgbc

In a few short hours, I am going to be attending a holiday party, a joint event put on by

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