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There is a common business aphorism: “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” True. But you had better be darn sure that what you are measuring is really what you are trying to manage.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
Around the world, researchers like Howes are investigating how nonvisual information defines the character of a city and affects its livability. Using methods ranging from low-tech sound walks and smell maps to data scraping, wearables, and virtual reality, they’re fighting what they see as a limiting visual bias in urban planning.
Why Sounds and Smells Are as Vital to Cities as the Sights
Jennifer Hattam
HUD was not on board. And so the parking got built, and the project costs went up by $2 million, and the rents rose by $1,400 a year.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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