TEDxPhilly - Inga Saffron - Creating livable cities and letting go of skyscraper fantasies
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Architecture critic Inga Saffron challenges cities to shift focus and look beyond skyscraper fantasies and dreams of increased tourism in her TEDxPhilly talk -- "Moving from The Grand Vision to The Grand Adjustment." Cities should instead work to improve and build amenities that make urban areas better places to live for existing dwellers. Publi... Read more
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- -: TEDxPhilly - Inga Saffron - Creating livable cities and letting go of skyscraper fantasies
January 30, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Architecture critic Inga Saffron challenges cities to shift focus and look beyond skyscraper fantasies and dreams of increased tourism in her TEDxPhilly talk -- "Moving from The Grand Vision to The Grand Adjustment." Cities should instead work to improve and build amenities that make urban areas ...
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- -: TEDxPhilly - Ethan Nguyen - On taking chances
January 23, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Mentor one young person this year and you set them on a journey that will ultimately lead them to an opportunity to change other lives. Dissuaded by a high school guidance counselor from applying to top schools, Ethan Nguyen found encouragement from a supportive local librarian and landed at Vass...
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- -: TEDxPhilly - Rich Medina - Philadelphia: A city that nurtures our creative muscle
January 23, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Rich Medina paints Philadelphia as an epic birthplace and 'nurturing mother' for musical expression. After an Ivy League education and a promising start in semi-professional basketball, Medina found himself working in a series of lucrative but unfulfilling corporate jobs. All the while, he felt t...
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- -: TEDxPhilly - Tracy Broyles & Spiral Q Puppet Theater - Affirmation, Imagination and Practice
January 21, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Spiral Q Puppet Theater is a Philadelphia-based, social justice puppet troupe that builds strong and equitable communities characterized by creativity, joy, can-do attitudes, and the courage to act on their convictions. In her talk, Tracy Broyles, Executive Director of Spiral Q, explores the thre...
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- -: TEDxPhilly - Nijmie Dzurinko - Challenging negative perceptions of young people
January 19, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Nijmie Dzurinko's challenge: let's reconsider the negative perceptions of young people in our society -- as apathetic and lazy, unwilling to learn, not capable of critical thinking and problem solving, and more. Dzurinko draws attention to the oppression of youth -- by circumstance, the education...
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- -: TEDxPhilly - Jennifer Pahlka - On networked cities in the digital age
January 15, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Jennifer Pahlka believes that the value of a city reaches far beyond its borders. The increase in open dialogue between local government and citizens has a positive global impact on everything from environmental awareness and economic equality (the Occupy movement) to open data and citizen access...
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- -: TEDxPhilly - Diana Lind - On dismantling urban highways in cities
December 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Diana Lind poses a challenge: let's re-imagine the future of urban transportation and tear-down highways that cut through our cities. Lind's talk discusses how forward-thinking cities have dismantled highway infrastructure ---- building vibrant public spaces in the face of car culture. In the cas...
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