Tag: Coastal Alabama

Ta-may-toe, Ta-mah-toe: Lessons in complexity from a fruit

Ben Brown
Ben Brown
Want to know where we go wrong solving single-mindedly for parking, affordability, sustainability, accessibility and all the other stuff on urban planning’s high-priority list? Consider the tomato.  More specifically the winter tomato, as designed and manufactured in Florida. In Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial... Continue Reading
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“Sustainability” is so ten years ago — Let’s talk “Resilience”

Ben Brown
Ben Brown
Deep in an April 14 New York Times story on the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami was mention of an iPhone app called Yurekuru that gives warning of an impending quake. The name, said the Times, translates into English roughly as, “the shaking is coming.” Before the March 11 quake, the app attracted... Continue Reading
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