Friday Five: June 6th – 11th

Lots of good posts this week, here are five of the best:

• Putting the Livability Agenda Back in Place: How the Obama administration’s livability platform is being miscast as exclusively favoring high-density development. (Project for Public Spaces)

• Mass Mingling: A look at how the ‘online revolution’ is fueling an increasing range in ‘face-to-face’ meet-ups (trendwatching.com)

• The New Urban Workplace: “In the industrial economy people worked in factories. In the services/information economy people worked in office parks. In the creative economy, people are working in downtowns.” This post looks at the trend towards not only the downtown migration of businesses, but also how this is spurring the adaptive reuse of old buildings by major companies like Pixar, Adidas and Amazon. (CoolTown Studios)

• Community vs. Social Network. Have you ever wondered what the difference between community and social network is? Read this post and find out. (Lithium Lithosphere Blog)

• Stealth density vs high rise density: Density doesn’t necessarily mean high-rises in fact the best sorts of density often don’t. Here are some ways build high density communities without high rises. (All About Cities)

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• Creating A Sense of Place – How To Turn A Place Around Handbook (fadingintomyth.blogspot.com)
• GeneroCite (schott.blogs.nytimes.com)
• Are Planners Socialists for Trying to Encourage “Livability”? (treehugger.com)

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