Strategy 2: Create Space Within Limitations
2020-03-17
Every space provides two resources: its physical parameters and its axis of experience. In order to create space within limitations, we must rely on the latter. Continue Reading
Strategy 1: Make Ideas Happen by Leveraging the City’s Allowances
2020-03-17
Many great ideas for the public realm have been defeated by the notion of “getting permission” before they’ve had a chance to come to life. Here are three methods for bringing ideas to life in the city.Continue Reading
How to Make Ideas Happen: Creative Strategies Series
2020-03-16
Over the course of 30 years of plying my trade around the world, I’ve developed some decent creative strategies along the way. In the lead-up to the release of my latest book, I’m sharing some of them here.Continue Reading
Plumbers Made the Terracotta Army Possible – The Power of Repurposing Skills
2018-11-07
There is tremendous power in the cross-pollination of skills and their application. Mastering a skill or craft is a great achievement, but the full potential of a skill is often unrealized when it is not applied outside a specific discipline.Continue Reading
Adopt a Creative Strategy from Baseball: “Make the adjustment before the pitcher does.”
2018-11-05
Yesterday I was thinking about a line I read in the book Chipper Jones, BallPlayer: “Make the adjustment before the pitcher does.” It’s powerful advice that applies far beyond baseball. Making an adjustment to respond to what is going toContinue Reading
“Nations talk. Cities act.” Five Insights from the MIPIM Mayor’s Think Tank in Cannes
2014-03-17
For those who wonder what is on the mind of the world’s mayors, last week’s MIPIM Mayor’s Think Tank in Cannes, France was a rare opportunity to discover just that. In the Salon Royale of the Cannes Majestic Hotel, mayorsContinue Reading
Reprogramming the City:
Opportunities for Urban Infrastructure
2013-08-07
Now that the media and blogging community has had first dibs on covering my latest project, it’s time to talk about it here. Reprogramming The City: Opportunities for Urban Infrastructure is a global overview of ways in which existing urbanContinue Reading