Fiat currency printed by governments or crypto-currency mined by computers. Spending rewards issued by credit card companies or retail brands. Impacts reports by socially responsible investment mutual fund families or foundations. What characteristics differentiate these forms of money? Each has an accountancy focused on the math of input-output, with a sliding scale for the holder’s and user’s right of […]
U.S. Green Building Council LEED Certifications, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star Certifications have been in development for nearly twenty years. Forward-looking real estate investment trusts (REITs) are beginning to promote that their portfolios include LEED or Energy Star certified commercial and industrial properties (for example, without endorsement, Wells REIT II’s LEED Portfolio Grows […]
Amidst the rancor in Europe and the United States over migration, its risks and how to contain or adapt to it, the world is witnessing the rise of new nationalist movements. Against this background, Urban Logic began researching the history of migration, and how migration stories are told, mythologized and forgotten. Along with other nonprofits […]
Istanbul sits smack on top of some of the Earth’s most active seismic faults. A city of nearly 14 million, the risks of repeating past earthquakes exceeding 7 in magnitude, threatens rich and poor alike. Current USGS projections, show the vulnerability maps, with devastating clarity. The geology of how this region formed explains what is happening […]
Over the past few years, Urban Logic has looked at how banks reflect society’s priorities, and cause multiple impacts in doing so. In order to understand “banking,” numerous books, professional journals and a deluge of popular works after the 2008 Credit Crisis have come forward to demystify the “black box of banking”, so that it […]
U.S. Green Building Council LEED Certifications, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Istanbul sits smack on top of some of the Earth's most active seismic faults. A city of nearly 14
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