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NLGN believes that local government, their partners, and the communities they lead, must undergo a profound cultural shift to embrace three core ‘changemaking’ values of creativity, collaboration and self-determination. Only then will councils and citizens be able to generate the many innovations necessary to solve our biggest social problems.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Themes: Complex Time - Adaptation, Aging, Arrow of Time | Santa Fe Institute
Time in complex systems operates concurrently at different scales, runs at multiple rates, and integrates the function of numerous connected systems. We describe these processes as “complex time” as opposed to the simple, regular clock time of physical phenomena. In complex time age includes explicitly the coupling between information gain and information loss.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Streets & Transportation | Category
For decades, we have been building transportation through communities, rather than creating communities through transportation. Streets designed only to move cars can work so much harder. They can certainly carry more people by more modes of transportation—but they can also become great places in their own right.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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