david syring Smart cities need thick data, not big data The Guardian - Adrian SmithIn Barcelona, high-tech data platforms generate demand for old-fashioned community development. Residents living around Plaça del Sol joke that theirs is the only square where, despite the name, rain preferable....
david syringCities Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners The GuardianShow caption When cities lack the paths pedestrians need, people vote with their feet We’ve all been there. You want a short cut – to the bus stop, office or corner shop – but there’s no designated path....
david syring 'A unique and slightly mad effort': mapping Britain in poetry The GuardianShow caption ‘A unique and slightly mad effort’: mapping Britain in poetry A national community arts project, where poems are matched to precise locations, is reinventing a 17th-century classic for the...
david syring Emotions Matter More for People’s Life Satisfaction in Religious than Secular Countries | SPSP spsp.org If I asked you to evaluate the quality of your life, you would probably take your recent emotional experiences and moods into account to decide how …
david syring Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden Harper's BAZAAR - By Melanie HamlettKylie-Anne Kelly can’t remember the exact moment she became her boyfriend’s one and only, his what would I do without you, but she does remember neglecting her own needs to the point of hospitalization....
