"The videos are from cities like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Budapest, Tunis, Singapore, Delhi, Ljubljana, Berlin, Helsinki, San Francisco. Our anonymous globetrotter—who reveals only his or her country of origin (Japan) and hides behind a string of random letters—plops down their camera on a tripod and records a ten-minute snippet from crowded city streets. The author never replies to comments, and the account has one favorite video: the Lumiere brothers’ first films (1895)."

"The Jack Sheaffer Photograph Digital Collection contains over 10,000 images that document the photographic history of southern Arizona during a time of explosive growth in the area, from 1955 - 1975. Jack Sheaffer photographed both major and minor events that made up the history of southern Arizona during the last half of the twentieth century. His subjects included in this collection, ran the gamut from politics and sports, to annual civic events like the Tucson Rodeo, and from celebrity visits and tragic accidents, to local beauty pageants."

"The Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection emphasizes the history of Los Angeles, Southern California, and California."

Facebook is about you sharing with the world. Google Plus is about Google understanding you. See the difference? This is why people sometimes say that Google doesn't get social. People don't join Facebook so Facebook can understand them better! In fact, the better Facebook understands them, the more wary of the service they get.

We believe rapidly developing cities are the home of global advancement. Like Silicon Valley is to modern technology, the developing cities are the birthplace of innovative, new sustainable solutions for today’s developing world. As thinkers, creatives and agents of change, our role is to reveal these solutions and apply them to responsibly shape physical, human and commercial structures around the world. We are starting in Africa and other developing regions.

"The Legion model seeks to understand, with each step the pedestrian takes, what their next step will be, based on a mathematically weighted combination of three factors (the tolerance for, and wish to avoid, inconvenience, frustration, and discomfort). More minor things are often observed—people pausing briefly in London before exiting a transit station to see if it’s raining—but not fully modeled yet. (Plottner notes the company already has some 9 million pedestrian measurements.) Getting large crowds of people to move smoothly often involves negating people’s own natural inclinations. In London, or in Chinese cities, he notes, it is common to see a long railing at the bottom of pairs of escalators. 'It forces you to take a few extra steps,' he says. 'Every time we turn, we’re always trying to cut the corner, always trying to get a leg up on that other person. This removes the conflict area from the base of the escalator.' Similarly, Legion’s models for sports stadiums and other large facilities often show circular switchbacks in staircases can handle more people than square. 'People are better about following the outline of the wall,' says Plottner. 'They don’t feel like it’s causing them extra work.'"

"The Low2No project is designed to help transition our cities to a low carbon future. We aim to balance economy, ecology and society through strategic investments and interventions in the built environment."