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"The Urban Communes Data Set (UCDS) is a longitudinal, multi-group study consisting of data collected at the group, individual, and dyadic level (Benjamin Zablocki, principal investigator). Sixty groups from six different urban regions in the United States entered the data frame in 1974. Further waves of the data collection process occurred in 1975, 1976, 1984, 1985, and are currently underway. The data from 1974 alone probably constitute the largest set of comparable network data from independent naturally occurring communities, and offer many possibilities for secondary analysts." - jessykate

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open plan work/office space design is not necessarily conducive for productivity or innovation. - jessykate

some great drawing of re-configurable private work spaces included. - jessykate

"to make neighborhoods mostly comprised of a single type of housing, makes residential neighborhoods less resilient in the face of demographic and other changes." - jessykate

every person who wakes up in the morning with a passion inside of themselves to manifest something great, then turns off that urge and goes to “work”…. that is a superhero waiting to be cultivated. - jessykate

high level overview of layout and aesthetic considerations. - jessykate

great article about writing science fiction. proposed important components of good science fiction: inspiration, inoculation, reflection, exposure. argues SF authors create vocabularies through which futures can be debated and eventually realized. SF authors don't predict, they create. - jessykate

hmmm... lot of contradictions here. - jessykate