Here's a possible trend NO one could have imagined.
"The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue."
MBA in Strategic Foresight is designed to develop leaders who can inspire companies, NGOs, and governments to imagine better futures. Students also learn to manage the processes of creating and implementing new business models and strategies in order to make those futures real.
Sit-able places are key, interdisciplinary focal points where the delight of "placemaking" and cultural traditions of "watching the world go by" merge with the sometimes conflicting domains of law and politics, economic development, public safety, gentrification and the homeless.
great places ("you know them when you see them" as we say in our baseline report) are listed in 3 categories: neighborhoods, streets and public places.
The internet has replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge. And digital distribution has replaced the role of a library as a central hub for obtaining the containers of such knowledge: books.
Will this happen to museums too?
What are the places that draw people together and create a sense of community? They want a way to feel connected to other people in the place that they share.
Not all of these are the usual suspects to be on such a list:
Bogota, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Mexico City, Munich, Rio de Janeiro, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, and Tokyo.
owners of businesses that front the small chunk of parking spaces that would be replaced with the bulb-outs might gain as their street becomes more attractive
The increased sense of weight was found to be related to participants' heightened feelings of guilt, and not other negative emotions, such as sadness or disgust.
I am a business applications administrator at the Getty Research Institute focusing on the design, development, and maintenance of databases and systems that support art historical research. I am also co-char of the California Association of Museums Foresight Committtee.