[v=qktrNImgUfI] Oh, Twitter, how did we distract ourselves before you fueled our ADD-addicted, mass media-addled psyches? The Urban Land Institute tweeted about this article, New Opportunities But Little Recovery, but their short url went 404. So clickety googledy, and I happened upon Design Intelligence, a periodic publication of the Design Futures Council on trends in architecture, […]
Grassroots Engagement With Social Media
During a fast-paced presentation, rancher Jeff Fowle and organic dairy farmer Emily Zweber outlined how they have used social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube and LinkedIn to connect with non-farmers. Both strongly emphasized the importance of the “human element” and the need to be genuine when using social media or else any attempts are destined to fail….
Over-regulation: "a clear and present danger"?
The Red River Farm Network weekly newsletter highlights some of their coverage from the American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Meeting in Atlanta this week. I’m a local Farm Bureau member, not because I farm, but because I live in a community that depends on agriculture and I appreciate the democratic process that the Farm Bureau […]
Ten Macrowikinomics Trends for 2011
[v=nMFH55GWQ9s] Don Tapscott tells it like he sees it. I ran across him first in one of those big-picture motivational conferences somewhere talking about technology and business and innovation. I remember he talked about how amazed he was when his kids could teach him tech stuff he just puzzled over. I get that now that […]
Halden Wofford and the Governor's Ball
[v=d3_Q3c6Q7TA] My friends in the alt-country (neo-country?) band Halden Wofford & the Hi-Beams are playing the Colorado Governor’s Inauguration at the Fillmore in Denver next week. Their release Sinners & Saints was one of my favorites of 2010. W00t! for the band. Join John Hickenlooper and Joe Garcia for a non-traditional inaugural dinner with live music and […]
Traffic on Your GPS: Big Brother or a Helping Hand?
Location-based services website LBSzone.com has an interesting little article from NAVTEQ on traffic congestion. Navteq is the geographic information systems (GIS) computer mapping company behind most of our online maps, and many of the maps in Global Positioning Systems (GPS) units many of us plug into or come with our cars these days. I don’t […]
Lifetime Value of a College Degree
Urban Planning job prospects and other degree salary information by Online Degrees At my house we’re going thru that great American rite of passage, college admissions and financial aid applications (supplication). I have some strong opinions (you never would have guessed from my blog, no?) but think I have been trying hard not to be […]
Urbanomics: A trend in brief
Although I’m an urban planner in a rural region, I still pay attention to global trends in development—who is growing how where. Trends by their very nature tend to pop up from unexpected places. It’s almost impossible for a cadre in some global center like New York or London to manufacture a real trend. They […]
Into the Arena
Hold onto your wallets, the State Legislature is now in session. “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred […]
How we've blown up our cities
Fellow Minnesotan Charles Marohn, a recovering professional engineer, blogs today on some of the changing ways that we Americans build places. It is striking how the path of our economic development and the path of our physical development are so similar. In the age of Hamilton, we certainly had planning. Thomas Jefferson not only planned […]
