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Cities & Time | Stewart Brand

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Channel: The Long Now Foundation · 2011 · Science & Technology

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"As the author of How Buildings Learn I kept getting asked to give talks on “How Cities Learn.” With a little research I found that cities do indeed “learn” (adapt) impressively, but what cities mainly do is teach. They teach civilization." -- Stewart Brand in his post talk summary in 02005. More here: http://longnow.org/seminars/02005/apr/08/cities-and-time/

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