By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
On my list of the top 40 urban anti-catalysts, by my count, 36 were activated in the City of Detroit giving it a catastrophe score of 90%. It
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
On my list of the top 40 urban anti-catalysts, by my count, 36 were activated in the City of Detroit giving it a catastrophe score of 90%. It
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
‘Geez,’ Zoe thinks, ‘becoming an adult is like having knitting needles stabbed into your brain from every side, impregnating you with worries
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
Why even if you live to be 1,000 years of age, you can never get ahead IMHO with RRSPs/GICs/TFSAs/mutual funds. That’s why I teach Real
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
Excerpt from Quantum Entity | The Successors, book 3 in Bruce M Firestone’s trilogy. Chuck Wong and Commonwealth of the United States officers steal urgently needed construction equipment from under the noses of Cartesian overlords. [Play this while you read this post, Keep on rockin’ in the free world!] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=411cTWwxFu8?list=PLd3QdcBlEm98iNxVV0VHTOOnfJlaxkVsv] Now one might be forgiven for wondering how the Commonwealth […]
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
Narrow grass strip is useless time-wasting, energy-sucking POS. Kids would rather play round ball or street hockey or skateboard on hard surfaces.
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
Mystery home tucked into west end City of Ottawa park. City should allow more of this. Eyes on park make it safer. Plus cool place to live...
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
How much more interesting and how much more walkable would our cities be if instead of bringing mirrored glass towers to grade and alienating
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
A catalyst is something that helps a reaction that is already underway happen faster. Calamitous planning nearly destroyed Newark but now a new
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
Moving people from New York to Beijing in 2 hours or from NYC to LA in 45 minutes using evacuated tube transportation might make more sense than the Concorde ever did or high speed rail. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51HbmuKhRbk?list=PL57D3046BBE23B2A0] @Quantum_Entity
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
On a walk from downtown to my home in the west end, I stumbled across a derelict gas station that has been colonized by food trucks. Without any help from urban planners or maybe even in spite of them, this section of street (Richmond Road) has life. Nearby are some wall murals, possibly also against […]
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
Nick Bachusky and Andrew Miller interview Prof Bruce for their Lunch Out Loud series. They talk about entrepreneurship, hockey, novel writing,