Who are you, and what do you do?My name is Ollie Smith, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ExpertSure. At ExpertSure, we help people to find accurate ball park costs of real-world quotes and provide key information to users across a variety of industries.What is one habit of yours that helps you be productive?I always…
Stuart Draper
Who are you, and what do you do?My name is Stuart Draper, and I’m the founder and CEO of Stukent, Inc. Stukent develops internet marketing courseware through real-world simulations, digital textbooks, video mentoring sessions and more. Here’s my full LinkedIn bio:Stuart Draper is the co-author of Digital Marketing Essentials, the bestselling text in higher education…
Let’s Not Overthink This: Opening Streets is Easy, Says Urban Planner Mike Lydon
Urban planner Mike Lydon, whose firm, Street Plans, is based in Brooklyn, was shocked by the way the de Blasio administration conducted its recent — and failed — open streets pilot, which ended up being scrubbed after 11 days because the mayor required it to have a substantial deployment of police employees. But creating open…
Urbanism By Any Other Name
In our ongoing quest for improving cities, we have come up with all manner of tactics for “good” urbanism, some of which even have organizations attached to their guiding principle. In my career I’ve done my best to collect these approaches (so to speak) in an attempt to trace the disparate threads we in the…
Public Space and PARK(ing) Day
I’ll sing it until I’m blue in the face, but public space is one of the most crucial components of an urban environment. Not only is it a huge percentage of any city, but more importantly it’s public. And that includes the sidewalks, parks, plazas, and streets – all (or most) technically belonging to the…
