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The SFI report Crisis and Disaster Resilience 2030 focused on a deep analysis of future emergency management needs. The more recent document Toward More Resilient Futures: Putting Foresight Into Practice shifts the focus from theory towards practice.

"http://www.seriouslyamazing.com"

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In March, our mobile outreach program is participating in the LA County Science Fair. In their exhibit area for hands-on participating, they've planned a "Mini-Maker Fair."

Another page for the COST Web site with a link to Foresight 2030 reports, including the overall summary report. While not museum-specific, there is much to ponder broadly relative to technology, innovation and changing conditions in the world.

What might the office building of today look like, or be used for, tomorrow?

Acres of unused space in conventional office buildings may be transformed into hotel rooms, classrooms, theaters or retail uses, architects and urban planners say.   And museums? Exhibition spaces? Pop-up?

a broad trend: how data-driven decision making can lead to the most effective use of a city's limited financial resources

The Communist Party announced changes to their one-child policy to allow urban couple to have two children is both parents are only-children.  China's population is aging rapidly and they face looming labor shortages before they can get a firm foothold on prosperity.

Responding to reports of mass surveillance, engineers say they'll make encryption standard in all Web traffic. One wonders why encryption hasn't been the default already.

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.

Census Bureau defines "downtown," for lack of a better universal definition, as everything within a 2-mile radius of the local city hall.

"I am bothered by the "big box" science centers, $300 million dollar projects seem unnecessary.  You could build 100 smaller science centers for the same $300M budget.  My thinking behind Science Pop (science center in a box), has grown out of a need for community based science centers."

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.

Some observations about how museums have changed since 2008 and the Great Recession

Three maps depicting the "walkingsheds" of cafes in Cambridge, San Francisco, and Brooklyn. An interesting look at the possible areas of influence of specific Third Spaces.

This map shows the location of every independent coffee shop in Brooklyn and the walking-shed community associated with it. Independent coffee shops are positive markers of a living community. They function as social spaces, urban offices, and places to see the world go by. Communities are often formed by having spaces in which people can have casual interactions, and local and walkable coffee shops create those conditions, not only in the coffee shop themselves, but on the sidewalks around them. We use maps to know where these coffee shop communities exist and where, by placing new coffee shops, we can help form them. We applied two steps to generate the data displayed by the map. First, we used the Google Places API to locate all coffee shops in a given city. Second, for each point in the map we queried the walking route and distance to its nearest coffee shop using the Google Distance Matrix API. In the final map the colored areas represent a region which is walkable to a specific coffee shop (within one kilometer or 0.7 miles). The intensity of color at each point indicates its distance from its corresponding coffee shop.

Nothing in California made the list of Great Places, but maybe we can help change that!