Word: designer
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...Commerce group, "The population of this state is going to double by 2030. We've got to figure out how to handle that. You don't want to create 50,000-person subdivisions without a transportation plan. And you need skilled workers to build the houses and engineers to design the infrastructure, so you're gonna hear a lot from me about education. I'm not entirely kidding when I say you shouldn't be able to get a driver's license unless you've passed algebra...
...evolution design our brains to go wandering in time? Perhaps it's because an experience is a terrible thing to waste. Moving around in the world exposes organisms to danger, so as a rule they should have as few experiences as possible and learn as much from each as they can. Although some of life's lessons are learned in the moment ("Don't touch a hot stove"), others become apparent only after the fact ("Now I see why she was upset. I should have said something about her new dress"). Time travel allows us to pay for an experience...
...Commerce group, "The population of this state is going to double by 2030. We've got to figure out how to handle that. You don't want to create 50,000-person subdivisions without a transportation plan. And you need skilled workers to build the houses and engineers to design the infrastructure, so you're gonna hear a lot from me about education. I'm not entirely kidding when I say you shouldn't be able to get a driver's license unless you've passed algebra...
Keep in mind too that for some time one of the key words in design has been palimpsest. It originally referred to a manuscript or parchment that has been written on more than once, so that the earlier writing has been scraped away but still sometimes remains faintly visible. Translated into design terms, palimpsest stands for the idea that, given a chance, the history of a place can and will rise from its grave. It's the notion, for instance, behind a persistent argument in Berlin, where architects, city planners and ordinary citizens periodically squabble over how much...
Which brings us back to the Olympic Sculpture Park. With its clever switchback paths, the Weiss/Manfredi design capitalizes on the park's magnificent views by constantly bringing you back around to them in different ways. All the while it draws those views into a complex fabric of references to the city. So by narrowing and widening the routes, for instance, the designers create false perspectives that recall airport landing paths, an illusion they've underlined along one stretch with a string of low-rise "runway" lights. This is a park that doesn't try to separate nature and civilization. What...