Tag: cities

• Uber drivers are freelancers, not employees, federal labor lawyer says

  May 15, 2019

  Uber drivers are independent contractors, not employees of the ride-hailing company, the federal labor board’s general counsel said in an opinion released May 14th. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/14/18623467/uber-driver-freelancers-employees-federal-labor-lawyer-contractor more ›

• Uber Questions

  April 22, 2019

  Over the course of Uber’s remarkable rise — very significant stumbles along the way notwithstanding — it has been more prudent to defend the company’s valuation than to question it.… more ›

• Climate militias

  April 13, 2019

  first, that there’s no real material difference between climate change and any other conflict — as the world grows more predictably dangerous, tactical know-how will simply be more in demand… more ›

• The 21st century belongs to China—but the 22nd will be Africa’s

  February 22, 2019

  The 21st century will most likely belong to China as the Chinese Century. But with a rapid increase in Chinese investment and African innovation, the 22nd century may see the… more ›

• Metabolism (architecture)

  January 1, 2019

  Metabolism (新陳代謝, shinchintaisha) was a post-war Japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism_(architecture) more ›

• Photo

  January 1, 2019

  https://www.complexdays.net/post/179686086151 more ›

• baby-vintage:by Leon Levinstein, New York, 1950

  January 1, 2019

  https://www.complexdays.net/post/179685367826 more ›

• 14 Months, 120 Cities, $2 Billion: There’s Never Been a Company Like Bird. Is the World Ready?

  December 13, 2018

  14 Months, 120 Cities, $2 Billion: There’s Never Been a Company Like Bird. Is the World Ready? The first 10 Birds descended on Santa Monica, California, in early September 2017.… more ›

• What Africa’s emerging cities can learn from China

  December 2, 2018

  What Africa’s emerging cities can learn from China By 2030, more than half of African residents will be living in cities. These cities are being built, in large part, by… more ›

• The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities

  November 26, 2018

  The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities But first she had to recline the passenger seat of her 2015 Nissan Leaf as far as it would go—that… more ›