Time and space matter: How urban transitions create inequality

Smart City: How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space

In a moment of high expectations and accolades about " smart cities " initiatives around the world, the collection of definitions, concepts, studies and methodologies provided by the book entitled " Smart City. How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space " is a welcomed effort to clarify a structure of a complex ideal of a mega project like smart city. This edite...

How to Create a Time Crystal

T he story of time crystals—whose lowest-energy configurations are periodic in time rather than space—epitomizes the creative ideas, controversy, and vigorous discussion that lie at the core of the scientific process. Originally theorized by Frank Wilczek in 2012 [1] (see 15 October 2012 Viewpoint), time crystals were met with widespread attention, but also a healthy dose of skepticism [2]. Thi...

Navigating care transitions: a process model of how doctors overcome organizational barriers and create awareness.

As reforms push for improved integration across the care continuum, managers and policy makers are increasingly concerned about care transitions, such as during shift changes or when moving patients between units or institutions. The authors examined transitions from an emergency department to inpatient units through a 2-year ethnographic study of an academic medical center. Data include 48 sem...

How to Create Problems

In any given fixed setting, say polygonal tiles in the hyperbolic plane, we can ask a variety of questions, such as: " Is there an aperiodic set of tiles? " In this talk, we'll look at an interlocked web of such questions and discuss a variety of conjectures and results, both old and new.

Rodrigo’s Abstraction: Capitalism Inequality & Reform Over Time and Space