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Here’s another one. It’s everywhere:

Creating Sustainable Communities: Delivering Greenspace in the Thames Gateway

Don’t you love that terminology? “Delivering Greenspace.” Like it was a commodity that flows down a pipe. How about “Build a Park?” And what is so goddamn “sustainable” about “greenspace”? Do you plan to graze goats or something?

One of the basic problems with Non-Place is that it’s contagious. When you start introducing Non-Places into a city design, you tend to add more and more Non-Places to try to fix the problems caused by the original Non-Places. If you have two Places next to each other, like an apartment building and a store, then you can easily walk from the apartm... See more

Our rush towards the immersive in recent years could possibly be explained as part of that need for intimacy, connection, communal experiences.

While human teleportation currently exists only in science fiction, teleportation is possible now in the subatomic world of quantum mechanics -- albeit not in the way typically depicted on TV. In the quantum world, teleportation involves the transportation of information, rather than the transportation of matter.