1. Our school system was designed in the Nineteenth century to socialize immigrants and provide them with the skills they needed to work on production lines. It is badly broken – a giant creativity-squelching machine—and must be retooled from the bottom up, no more tinkering at the margins. Our schools should stoke their students’ passions, unleash their talents, and nurture their creative and entrepreneurial potential.

    — RICHARD FLORIDA: It’s Up To The Cities To Bring America Back

  2. Surveys have shown that controversies like Alaska’s infamous bridge to nowhere have left the public so suspicious of transportation projects that most people resist appeals for more funding.

    — - The Washington Post

  3. (via Grassroots Mapping: How You Can Create Aerial Cartography for Under $100, and Use It to Do Good - Environment - GOOD)

    (via Grassroots Mapping: How You Can Create Aerial Cartography for Under $100, and Use It to Do Good - Environment - GOOD)

  4. (via Indonesian Economy Booms, Its Infrastructure Groans : NPR)

    (via Indonesian Economy Booms, Its Infrastructure Groans : NPR)

  5. (via Colombian city gets giant, outdoor escalator - Yahoo! News)

    (via Colombian city gets giant, outdoor escalator - Yahoo! News)