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Sorry I went MIA, but I am now a GRADUATE! Last weekend I recieved my Bachelor of Science in City & Regional Planning from The Ohio State University. President Obama was our commencement speaker, too. It was fantastic.
Now, I’m starting grad school in a few weeks! I’m sort of a PhD student. As in, my department accepted me into the PhD program, but, despite graduating OSU with a 3.4, my GPA from a school I left in 2009 before taking 2 years off was terrible, so the graduate school itself only admitted me as a masters student. Because, you know, 2 1/2 years at OSU isn’t proof enough that I’m better now. So, after 2 semesters (including summer) of having a 3.0, then I can reapply to the PhD program. However, I’ll be taking PhD classes anyway and working on my Urban Design & Behavior concentration, so for all intents and purposes I’m considering myself a PhD student. My professors have all congratulated me and seem to be considering me one as well, so that’s what counts!
SO. Any other PhD students on here? Or anyone who already got their PhD? If so, shoot me a message here, or let’s be twitter buds (@ameyawarde), as I will be using twitter a lot for my PhD journey from now on!
In Chicago!
Anyone else going? I’ll be there, and I got hired on as a student blogger covering the conference on Tuesday!
The Pop-Up City is always interested in mobile apps that create new experiences of the city. So when Wikipedia, the most popular source for all things information announced its spatial-debut, we paid attention. Wikipedia recently introduced its GeoData extension. This streamlined, centralized source for geographic information means that ‘mapping Wikipedia’ is about to explode.
An upcoming website and app. Sign up for updates. This should prove to be a top notch service.
Alex Wilson of BuildingGreen, LLC has calculated that for a modern green office building, commuting workers consume 50% more energy than the building itself. For a building like Foster’s Apple headquarters, it could be far more than that. All that design, all that money spent on solar panels and green gizmos to make the building almost net zero energy, just so 10,500 cars can fill its parking lots. It is an exercise in futility and misdirection.
Facebook: 2,800 engineers in the building can park at grade in 1,499 parking spaces, or one space for every 1.86 employees.
Apple Inc.: 14,200 employees and 10,500 parking spaces, or one space for every 1.35 employees.
Google: TBD
