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Here’s a great article from Metropolis Magazine (Here but Not Here, by Andrew Blum) that addresses the yet to be discovered overlap in architecture and social media. This overlap is precisely what my research in China is about – how the use of cellphones and computers changes people’s…
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All 59 Community Districts in NYC To Get Pedestrian Plazas like Times Square

Future Cape TownonMay 6, 2011/Comments closed

All 59 Community Districts in NYC To Get Pedestrian Plazas like Times Square

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