idle gaze 002: Community thrives through bustling neighbourhoods and casual chatter.

From the return of co-living spurred on by the increasingly realized benefit of living close to friends and family, to the growing presence of grassroots community initiatives like Neighborhood Trade School, mutual aid fridges, and community gardens, it’s clear that we’ve begun to recognize the potency of solving problems with collective solutions ... See more

But today things are different. The open world of the Entrepreneurial Age is dominated by networks of individuals equipped with ever more powerful computing devices. Not only do people travel more, they’re also more connected with one another across the borders that still divide the physical world. It doesn’t mean that local communities or nation s

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Wherever there are people – in buildings, in neighborhoods, in city centers, in recreational areas, and so on – it is generally true that people and human activities attract other people. People are attracted to other people. They gather with and move about with others and seek to place themselves near others. New activities begin in the vicinity o

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