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The Five Stages of Collapse | Dmitry Orlov
"And so it is with a great many things. We can wait until the lifestyle that is killing the planet and is making us crazy and sick is no longer physically possible, or we can opt out of it ahead of time. And what we replace it with [...]

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Ballardian » ‘Content in their little prisons’: J.G. Ballard on ‘The Towers’
"For example, in cities, the degree of criminality is affected by liberty of movement; it’s higher in culs-de-sac. And high-rises are culs-de-sac: two thousand people jammed together in the air…"
(tags: Ballardian Ballard architecture highrise interview urbanism crime)

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Design and Behaviour : A new discussion list

I’m pleased to announce the launch of Design and Behaviour, a new discussion list / Google group:
The design of products, services and environments can be used to influence behaviour, and there’s a growing appreciation of the possibilities for social benefit, especially in environmentally sensitive design, health, safety, security and crime reduction. This group aims to [...]