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Re: Going Critical (2019)

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Post by nerdponx » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 5:49 PM UTC

kubanczyk wrote: post #6

nerdponx wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the benefits of living in a city on a day-to-day basis have a lot less to do with "innovation" than with positive returns to geographic density for a lot of activities and industries, like entertainment, fine dining, the arts, and public transit.

Not to diminish fine dining or my biannual visits to the movie theater, but I think schools and kindergartens are the killer apps.

Also jobs, medical facilities, and various social services, which I didn't mention in my previous post.

Re: Going Critical (2019)

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Post by creakingstairs » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 1:43 AM UTC

kaba0 wrote: post #7

creakingstairs wrote: post #2

This is a great interactive essay. I found the part about diffusion in cities particularly interesting. I’ve been discussing with a friend on what makes big cities worth living in and one of the point raised was that just by putting a lot of people in a small space, you get much more innovation than spreading out the same amount of people in a wider area. This is one of the reasons why Edward Glaeser dubs city as “th…

I would be interested in how would this effect change by the introduction of remote work.

Companies are going in different tracks and some universities are more remote friendly than others. It will be interesting to compare how the companies are doing 5 years later to see the effect.

Re: Going Critical (2019)

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Post by therein » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 7:04 PM UTC

I have been looking for this with my friend for the last 6 months. I saw it on HN about two years ago and have shown it to him. Neither of us were able to find it again, especially since we thought the title was `Going Viral`, which made it especially hard to find given the COVID's pollution of the search keyword space.