Human Scale

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The concept of "human scale" is most known in urban design and architecture, but it provides a good framework to think about a lot of different aspects of our lives.

This community can be the place in this hyper-connected world to display and cherish the things that are not.

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Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used (alsterrunde.com)
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Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine? (bigthink.com)
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Why Human Centered Design is the Future of Architecture (www.archevoke.com)
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The Cost of Safetyism: what we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard. (stevemagness.substack.com)
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Dear Readers: Yes, pen pal programs still exist in a digital world (apnews.com)
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The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code (techtrenches.dev)
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How the Turner Twins Are Mythbusting Modern Gear (www.carryology.com)
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Popular smartphone-based currency systems boost local spending (www.asahi.com)
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Against scale (tante.cc)
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How We Lost Communication to Entertainment (ploum.net)
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I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens (sethpurcell.com)
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Why the Ultrarich Are Unplugging From “Smart Homes” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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The ROI of exercise (herman.bearblog.dev)
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The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality (english.elpais.com)
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Flounder Mode: Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work (joincolossus.com)
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Friendship's Under-appreciated Dimension. (cinqpersonnes.substack.com)
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Turns Out, Mandatory Helmet Laws Make Cyclists Less Safe (www.bicycling.com)
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Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town (www.tokyoweekender.com)
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The Dark Prophet of Car-Clogged Cities (www.bloomberg.com)
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70 years before congestion pricing landed in New York City, Lewis Mumford sounded the alarm on letting automobiles run amok in America’s downtowns.

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Open Source, Open Doors: How Giving an App to His Hometown Launched a Moroccan Developer's Career (www.trufi-association.org)
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And by sharing his app and data openly, Salim demonstrated the power of open-source collaboration.

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Finding Flow: Escaping Digital Distractions Through Deep Work and Slow Living (www.ssp.sh)
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My product is my garden (herman.bearblog.dev)
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In the Kingdom of the Bored, the One-Armed Bandit Is King (www.newcartographies.com)
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Timothée Chalamet on a Bike Shows How We Can Travel Faster Without Cars (www.strongtowns.org)
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The secret to a better city is a two-wheeler (www.motherjones.com)
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