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“People want to live in cities where there’s a high quality of life. These demands are placing a huge strain on city infrastructures and the planet’s resources. We need a “smarter” approach to delivering vital services, such as transportation, healthcare, education, public safety, energy and water. It’s estimated that lost productivity and energy use due to traffic congestion alone wastes between 1% and 3% of the world’s gross domestic product.”
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Source: fastcodesign.com
Ingenious Infographic: U.S. Highways, Mapped Like A Subway System
The graphic language of the London Underground map is so iconic that “[insert any network or process here] visualized as a London Underground map” has become a design cliché. So why are we writing about the latest iteration, a Tube-style map of U.S. interstate highways, created by Cameron Booth? Because, clichéd or not, visualizing this particular system in this way is actually damned useful.
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10 Things (I Think) I've Learned
1. Check email on the weekends once per day.
2. Check out all together once per month.
3. Those that judge don’t matter, and those that matter don’t judge.
4. Your parents’ sins, names or money are not yours.
5. Don’t lie about skeletons.
6. Don’t wear them on your sleeve, either.
7. You’ll do your best writing with a broken heart.
8. Send hand-written thank-you notes.
9. Don’t pay people to do things you can do for yourself.
10. Get a can of WD40, it’s not that serious.
http://recessionista.com/2011/09/13/10-things-i-think-ive-learned-4/
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How Gas/Oil Prices Affect Businesses and Consumers including Transportation
