The city of Ordos – built for 1 million people but no one has moved in!!

• Brizzly / euanspills –
• Five Ways to Change the World : Places: Design Observer –
• Superfreakonomics –
• The History of the Internet in a Nutshell –
• BBC NEWS | England | London | Neighbours scheme ‘not snooping’ –
• Institute of Contemporary Arts : ICA Talks Archive : Brian Eno & Steven Johnson –

• Why Design Thinking Won’t Save You – u
• The UK’s champion of design: The Duke of Edinburgh – Core77 – One of Britain's most outspoken champions and critics of design is the 88-year-old Duke of Edinburgh, who formed the eponymous Prince Philip Designers Prize some 50 years ago. This year's winner will be announced this Thursday at Buckingham Palace, and in advance of the event, Times writer Kevin McCloud sat down with the Duke for an interview

• Emergent Urbanism – This website explores urban planning and design in a new light, that of complexity science and the phenomenon of emergence. It attempts to show how great cities are the result of individuals building something that is unique to themselves and combine with other individual acts to form a pattern that exists in a greater dimension. With this knowledge we can plan cities that share the complexity of nature and life, and all their qualities.