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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 7h
Here's an investment advice vagueskeet for you: I would wager the most underappreciated art asset of the next decade or so is an original copy of Matisse's "Jazz," or at the very least one of its "Icarus" pochoirs. Real theraputized ones know.
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Iain Montgomery @iainmonty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why is it that as virtually every sector over the past 50 years has seen incredible improvement in productivity, the cost of constructing things like buildings or infrastructure is so much higher? A new paper called 'Chain Drain' might offer an answer. challengercities.substack.com/p/challenger...
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Challenger Cities EP101: Chain Drain with Greg Lindsay & Bryan Boyer
Listen now (63 mins) | Why every project in the built environment is effectively a prototype, how we fail to learn from what we build and 4 futures that could follow. Once you see Chain Drain, you not...
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 19/09/2026
Taps the sign, only the sign is a 2022 report I co-wrote for NATO. cyber.army.mil/Portals/3/Do... www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 13/09/2026
WSJ: “Carney is pressing to join the EU’s study-abroad program, as well, hoping a generation of Europeans and Canadians will attend university in each other’s homelands.” Oh, so I can send my kids to Leiden for 3,000 euros/yr and you can send yours to McGill for $50K? Deal.
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 13/09/2026
"In conversations with France, whose president, Emmanuel Macron, speaks to Carney often, the idea has even come up to allow Canadians to live and work in Europe visa-free, two officials familiar with those discussions said." 👀👀👀 www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Exclusive | Mark Carney’s Audacious Bid to Make Canada an ‘Associate Member’ of the EU
As trade talks with the U.S. collapse, prime minister pursues a major—and risky—pivot to Europe; an Ottawa book club plays its part.
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League of California Cities @calcities.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
✨ The countdown to the Cal Cities Annual Conference and Expo is on! And our keynote lineup is official! ✈️ Wednesday, Sept. 23: Stephanie Chung, aviation executive leader 🌆 Thursday, Sept: 24: Greg Lindsay, urbanist 🚀 Friday, Sept. 25: José Hernández, former NASA astronaut
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 24/07/2026
Nothing but countermeasures all the way down from here...
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Japonica Brown-Saracino @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
My gratitude to the hosts of the Unfrozen Podcast, Daniel Safarik and Greg Lindsay, for an engaging conversation about The Death and Life of Gentrification. unfrozenarch.net/episodes/117...
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117. The Death and Life of Gentrification
The specter of neighborhood appropriation by big capital and other outside actors, pricing out the people who lived there previously, is the tradition...
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School of Cities @uoftcities.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Meet our 2026-27 Visiting #Experts! Greg Lindsay is an urban futurist & currently a senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, ASU’s Threat­ cast­ing Lab & Atlantic Coun­cil’s Scow­croft Center for Strategy and Secu­rity. Welcome Greg Lindsay! ow.ly/1FQb50ZeZYT
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 29/06/2026
Only at Aspen Ideas can a fireside chat with Francis Fukuyama and Peter F-ing Thiel be followed an hour later by Carl Bernstein on AtPM and "the enduring fight for truth." Don't believe me? Exhibit A: www.aspenideas.org/sessions/hum... Exhibit B: www.aspenideas.org/sessions/all...
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Humanity at the End of History | Aspen Ideas
Two of the most influential thinkers of our time disagree about the direction of history and humanity’s place in it. Their conversation digs into enduring philosophical questions about history, liber...
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 25/06/2026
The hottest nightclub in Kowloon is the new children's exhibit at M+
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 21/05/2026
Since @alexbozikovic.bsky.social reposted this dashed-off bit of snark, I'll unpack the flaws and elision Florida's op-ed in a thread. He opens with the anecdote below, about an American-educated "software consultant" delighted to bike-then-fly to work in NYC. Why does this matter? 1/x
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 20/05/2026
Me: The Billy Bishop expansion arguments are based entirely on vibes. Richard Florida: The guy sitting next to me on the plane loves commuting to Manhattan for work, and I love walking to the airport... www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: Doug Ford is right to expand Billy Bishop airport and bring it, and Toronto, to new heights
Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport is one of the most important economic assets in the city
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 18/05/2026
I took my boys to see Inter @ San Siro and @veneziafc.bsky.social @ Pier Luigi Penzo last fall because both will soon be gone, like tears in rain.
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 15/05/2026
Just wait until the cults.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is why last week I spoke to Greg Lindsay, co-author of Aerotropolis, who was very clear that Florida’s account of the research is wrong. bsky.app/profile/alex...
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The continuum from the Toronto board of trade to ford & his ancient ideas about Niagara being “Vegas” and the same old - we don’t talk about the mediocrity of the Canadian business establishment enough & how it undermines Canada. Maybe they stink.
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 18/03/2026
Tomorrow’s news today. (If today were The Onion in 2000.) theonion.com/nation-plung...
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Nation Plunges Into Chaos
WASHINGTON, DC–Presidential-election-related violence continued to spread across the nation Tuesday, with Day Seven of the battle for the White House claiming another 1,200 lives.
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 15/03/2026
Florida's not just wrong on this score, he's totally disingenuous. He's read all the same literature I have regarding the importance of large, centralized hubs versus a constellation of smaller airports. I know because he told me himself when he agreed to *blurb my book.*
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NickKauf @nickkauf.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
At this @bsky.app @theonion.com thing with Jeopardy's Greg "@handle.invalid" Lindsay trying to get his account reactivated. #freegreg
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Would jets downtown be good for Toronto’s economy? As it turns out, no. @greglindsay.org explains the truth behind the vibes: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Doug Ford’s obsession to expand downtown Toronto airport would be economic vandalism
‘Anything that dilutes Pearson’s hub function risks real economic harm,’ urbanist and futurist Greg Lindsay says
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/03/2026
What is the pro-social use of this feature.
By linking the smart glasses to Google’s image generator, Nano Banana, Bohn shows how you can instruct them to doctor up an image on the fly. In the video demo, Bohn asks Gemini to take a picture of people in the room using the smart glasses, but then superimpose them over the “really cool church in Barcelona that I forget the name of.” Based on the demo, it seems to do exactly that, taking people in the room and using AI to essentially Photoshop them in, so it looks as though they’re standing in front of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Also, people, “I really like this charming small airport we should make it more like the one I hate” is not a smart position to take.
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 13/03/2026
Had a great time dipping back into the academic literature underpinning AEROTROPOLIS to explain to The Globe and Mail's @alexbozikovic.bsky.social why expanding Toronto's Billy Bishop is purely vibes-based and would be a mistake. #makepearsongreatagain www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Doug Ford’s obsession to expand downtown Toronto airport would be economic vandalism
‘Anything that dilutes Pearson’s hub function risks real economic harm,’ urbanist and futurist Greg Lindsay says
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Not a single city in the world is expanding a downtown airport right now. Not one. All of this is rationalization for the fact that executives like having an airport that nobody else uses. Textbook elite capture.
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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 26/11/2025
Excellent title: The Screen Killed the City. I’m jealous I couldn’t be in Vancouver for this. I promise I’ll visit one day.
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 26/11/2025
My favorite talk of the fall, and it isn't close. Thanks again to WRLDCTY for having me! youtu.be/Pz3w7IQnVmQ?...
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The Screen Killed the City: Greg Lindsay - WRLDCTY 2025
YouTube video by WRLDCTY
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 24/11/2025
Is our language so impoverished that we have to use acronyms of French phrases to make ourselves understood, Charlie Brown? Yes.
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 24/11/2025
Only 40%?! Try harder, Chicago.
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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 21/11/2025
Congratulations Rafi Segal and Marisa Morán Jahn! On the Holcim Foundation Grand Prize in Europe: for Art-Tek Tulltorja. A former brick factory turns art and science hub and cornerstone of urban revival in Kosovo’s Pristina. – via @glindsay.bsky.social
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Holcim Foundation Grand Prizes honour sustainability in architecture
Announced at the foundation's forum in Venice, the prizes highlight five projects responding to climate change
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Jesse M. Keenan @jessemkeenan.com · 17/11/2025
My book North: The Future of Post-Climate America is moving up the Amazon Books rankings (and its not even out yet). Want to hear more? Check-out my conversation with @glindsay.bsky.social and Daniel Safarik on Unfrozen (podcast) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlKV...
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108. NORTH
YouTube video by Unfrozen
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Kamiten, Cursed Feral Clown @kamitenz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The only thing smart in my house is a TV because I was not given a choice in the matter. Modem televisions are near impossible to get without smart features.
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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
You were right back then and it’s only gotten harder to find appliances that aren’t connected. I assume the ability to sell consumer data as an additional revenue stream is irresistible to corporations.
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Asia Górska @mayome.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I remember being so excited abt IoT, I was 20, starry-eyed and only worried about privacy in the context of Facebook. I still like the idea of home automation and power use graphs! But the execution of it all bore horrors i couldn’t have conceived of back then…
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 22/10/2025
.@hypervisible.blacksky.app coined "luxury surveillance" to describe the devil's bargain of smart glasses and AI+AR (AIR). Read my interview with him in "The Augmented City" to learn what we can do about it: urban.tech.cornell.edu/the-augmente...
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The Augmented City
  How NYC Moves: Tech Accelerated Data Solutions for Transportation and Development Approval in NYC   Modern big data, technologies, and AI can speed up and unlock more projects and [&hellip...
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 22/10/2025
Nearly a decade ago, my @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social colleagues and I warned that smart homes were a gigantic attack surface for cyberattacks and malware. And we weren't remotely the first to do so. www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
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Smart Homes and the Internet of Things
Read the Publication (PDF) The Internet of Things (IoT) is the next step in the evolution of wireless networks. Analysts predict the IoT will double in size to nearly 50 billion devices by 2020, compr...
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 15/06/2025
Maybe I've been here too long already, but where is the Quebecois reboot of Smokey and the Bandit the moment is clearly calling for? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...
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The (Failed) Beer Run that Could Change Canada
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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 20/05/2025
Here is Unfrozen episode no. 100. In Venice, I joined hosts @glindsay.bsky.social and Daniel Safarik for a rapid review of Biennale Architettura 2025. Guests incl. critic Kate Wagner and architects Rafi Segal, Jeanne Gang, and Mark Cavagnero. Photos by Luis Díaz. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 20/05/2025
ICYMI – Two weeks ago, I joined @glindsay.bsky.social and Daniel Safarik in Venice for their podcast Unfrozen to talk about Biennale Architettura 2025. The episode featured biennale curator Carlo Ratti of @mit.edu and Anastasia Sukhoroslova of All Things Urban: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 01/05/2025
I have but three moods these days: 1) depressed 2) enraged 3) panel discussion moderator
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 02/05/2025
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 28/04/2025
"Intelligence on tap" implies liquidation first. www.microsoft.com/en-us/workla...
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2025: The Year the Frontier Firm Is Born
Intelligence on tap will rewire business. Every leader needs a new blueprint. The time to act is now. The question is: how will you adapt?
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 26/04/2025
POV, you have just landed at ORD. @mihirpshah.bsky.social
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 22/04/2025
Everyone sharing the Douthat op-ed: I am begging you to read "Within the Context of No Context."
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Greg Lindsay @greglindsay.org · 21/04/2025
"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell." www.vatican.va/news_service...
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Way of the Cross at the Colosseum - Meditations (Good Friday, 18 April 2025)
Meditations for the celebration of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum (Good Friday,18 April 2025)
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