Tweet Carolyn sauntered up to the bar, music in hand, looking like Brigitte Lin in Chungking Express getting ready to plop a few coins into a jukebox. Four of us remained at the table, watching the progress of her negotiations. Walking back, sans disc, we knew she had succeeded. We had been sitting for hours in a dim corner at the Little Woody and were at that point where we had successfully solved a few of the world’s problems. More importantly, we were fearless enough to suggest a new soundtrack for the entire bar. As the Talking Head’s This Must…

Tweet Today’s post is by guest writer Matthew Salenger and is a data excerpt from a research project that his firm colab studio recently undertook about where people live and how connected they are with where they live. Matthew co-founded colab studio, llc in 1999, which has won over 25 major design awards for residential and commercial architecture, as well as public art. Matthew is currently a visiting faculty member at ASU, teaching a graduate design studio, and also teaches a sustainability philosophy class for a local educational group called “Ikoloji” (pronounced “ecology”). He has also been a part of…