While visiting New York this week for the American publication of his latest book "Cities for People"--a kind of manual for making walkable cities--Jan Gehl invited me to sit with him in Bryant Park to observe the sidewalk ballet and discuss what he calls “the needs of the urban habitat of homo sapiens.”READ»
Have we become a society of whiners when it comes to information overload? The time management field is overflowing with advice touting that more self-discipline is needed to control time allocations. Should we just "man-up" and ...READ»
What a tangled web is being weaved by the troubled musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The record-breaking $50 million Broadway show has a new opening date. Let's hope investors don't have to issue millions of dollars in refunds again.READ»
"New York? The whole damn place has been turned into a suburb," sneered David Harvey, startling a roomful of New Yorkers who prided themselves on the same things he derided: the makeover of the city's parks; the new network of bike ...READ»
Walmart isn't the only big box retailer making inroads in the sustainability arena. Best Buy, which released its 2010 Sustainability Report this week, has an ambitious plan to collect one billion pounds of e-waste over the next five ...READ»
You may have had an early night, but innovation was not in hiding. Oh no, sirree, it's been waving banners at oil conferences, shopping online, and appearing in court while you were asleep.1. He's been under the radar for a month now, ...READ»
Artist Molly Dilworth wins a competition to paint over the recently pedestrianized square; the soothing blues that will supposedly cool the streets down.READ»
Yesterday, on Mark Zuckerberg's birthday, Google revealed in its blog that it had stopped collecting data from its street view service because it had inadvertently sniffed and collected about 600 gigabits of ...READ»
The drama about the Times Square bombing event is continuing, and now a suspect is in custody, thanks to science and forensics. But it looks like the suspect's grip of science wasn't so hot: His bomb probably wouldn't have been as ...READ»
When Faisal Shahzad allegedly drove his Nissan Pathfinder, packed with explosives, into Times Square on Saturday, he was likely aiming for a place dense with tourists, theatergoers, sidewalk hucksters, and at least one naked cowboy -- ...READ»
The latest advancements in audio visual design and 3D technology will be unveiled at InfoComm 2010. McCann Systems, innovators in audio visual design, will attend the conference.READ»
When did Augusta become Times Square? When did golfers start dressing like Nascar drivers? Rick Barrack examines why ads have infiltrated our most reserved sport.READ»
Corporate training facilities benefit from audio visual design solutions, as provided by McCann Systems, to manage varying sizes of training sessions in different style venues.READ»
Corporate training facilities benefit from audio visual design solutions, as provided by McCann Systems, to manage varying sizes of training sessions in different style venues.READ»
