Comments on: 4.10.1 http://bigcitytalk.org.uk/630/4101/ A Place To Talk About Birmingham's Big City Plan Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:04:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nick Booth http://bigcitytalk.org.uk/630/4101/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Nick Booth Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:55:45 +0000 http://bigcity.paradisecircus.com/?p=630#comment-46 Digital technology encourages networked collaboration, learning, business and government. This process is also about people meeting face to face and planning how they can change things. Any city that is rich in such networks needs to nurture them by recognising that physically it ought to be planning for streets that are interesting, buildings that a varied, a scale that is human. <br><br>This plan should think long and hard about how much grand scale development a truly networked city will need. If it does not, we made find the thinkers who are most tapped into the network go and do their thinking somewhere more curious. Digital technology encourages networked collaboration, learning, business and government. This process is also about people meeting face to face and planning how they can change things. Any city that is rich in such networks needs to nurture them by recognising that physically it ought to be planning for streets that are interesting, buildings that a varied, a scale that is human.

This plan should think long and hard about how much grand scale development a truly networked city will need. If it does not, we made find the thinkers who are most tapped into the network go and do their thinking somewhere more curious.

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