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Hotels as homes for creativity
The boutique Marcel Hotel in New York is running an “artist in residency” program that so far has engaged celebrity tattoo artist Mister Cartoon, who worked from a pop-up studio in the hotel. (He...
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-“Hope is on the move,” reports The Economist. Optimism no longer defines Western culture, with 87 percent of Chinese saying their country is moving in the right direction, vs. just 31 percent of...
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-Launching a yearlong series on population growth, National Geographic explores the implications of a planet that’s 7 billion strong (a number we’ll hit in 2011). -A PwC report from the company’s “The...
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Tech giants are tapping into Americans’ newfound sense of DIY civic reform with Code for America, a new nonprofit supported by Yahoo! and Microsoft, among others. For 2011, 20 idealistic techies were...
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The new urban influx
Two of the largest demographic groups in America—Millennials and Baby Boomers—may be at very different life stages but both are seeking the same lifestyle: urban-style living. As outlined in a recent...
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-A McKinsey Global Institute report that maps the economic power of cities estimates that the GDP of urban centers in developing regions will overtake that of today’s major cities by 2025. -A...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Will & Kate, the new food wars and T-commerce
-Wedding fever: The first royal nuptials of the digital age “overruns” social media and causes Web traffic to spike. The Wall Street Journal examines how the House of Windsor brand is striving to keep...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Tomorrow’s transport, China’s bubble and Twitter’s growth spurt
Due to Memorial Day office closures, this double-edition roundup covers news items from the past two weeks. -Global wealth grew worldwide last year, with Asia Pacific and North America in the lead,...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Teens and social media, Intelligent Objects, and sexy,...
Find our roundups collected in magazine form on Flipboard, the iOS and Android app; download the app to view it here: http://flip.it/8N8BI. Due to Memorial Day office closures, this roundup covers the...
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