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Building beautiful places

Think of a beautiful city or town or part of a city you’d go to on vacation? Paris, Barcelona, Kyoto, Japan, Boston’s Faneuil Hall area. Smaller towns like Rockport, MA. What’s common about the places we’re thinking of? They’re almost all old. And they’re lively places you walk around and experience up close. Do you want to use an old cell phone? Old TV? old computer? old airplane? Why are we getting better at making just about everything except cities and towns? Some people say the world hasn’t built a beautiful city in 100 years. We even know how to build lively, beautiful places. Urban designers looked at and measured favorite cities and towns to figure out the rules for beautiful cities. They have local character, Barcelona, Kyoto and Boston’s Faneuil Hall area are distinctly different but all nice places. They’re compact enough to walk around and for using trains or buses. On the most lively streets the buildings are about two times taller than the width of the street.

Developing an Imaging Biomarker for Vascular Disease

Developing an Imaging Biomarker for Vascular Disease presentation