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A blog post with lots to explore on sustainable city design

I am particularly struck by the idea of decomposing problems into sub-problems whilts paying attention to the intersection of these so that a sub-team can work on a bounded project and konw that what they solve will link well to problems on all sides ... I have looked at the Ushahidi software a number of times but don't have the capacity to run it or fully understand it -- a joint project anyone?

I really liked this video showing the process of "Holistic Pattern Mining" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plpwld6dIms&feature=share&list=PLJgEdsvavJ1Un66I1Pf--cJEOunbjCFBp I am also wondering about Morphological Analysis for solving these complex issues. Does anyone have any experience with it? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_analysis_%28problem-solving%29 I would be interested in working on such a project.

Great free documentary site - I just watched one on the Biophilic City of Singapore it is also on youtube - http://youtu.be/XMWOu9xIM_k

interesting PDF from UN on sustainability measurements for cities

Have been drawing allot of inspiration from this one! Particularly love the idea of a cutting board that leads foods scraps into a methane digester. Definitely need a better kitchen composting system that is easy and effective for the modern kitchen design. Perhaps for people who are living in cities or tight areas and do not have land to use the compost effectively.