Posts about People

Design News You Can Use—The Power of Play Edition

Looking for a major dose of news you can use? In this edition of Design News You Can Use, Workplace Strategist Joelle Jach explores the delicate dance that is work-life balance and how play can help us stay sane.  Spare change: As we look to the future, it’s hard to ignore the impacts of climate […]

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Aligning an Organization to Achieve Desired Strategic Results

CRTKL’s Rudy Santacroce recaps his recent strategy development sessions at the IISE Annual Conference and Expo 2017 and discusses how OPEX can be used in everyday life. Operational excellence can sometimes seem like a lofty concept. It’s a bit difficult to define for those who don’t live and breathe OPEX like I do. But it’s […]

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Local Luxury: The Best of Both Worlds at Ala Moana

The Ala Moana Center in Honolulu is the largest open-air shopping center in the world. A multi-million dollar art collection, indigenous landscaping, more than 2 million SF of retail, a large performance stage with over 800 performances a year and a view of the Māmala Bay make the upscale, four-level shopping center one of a […]

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DATÜM: Job Survival in the AI Workplace

Recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk told political leaders that artificial intelligence poses an “existential threat” to human civilization. Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, believes that companies that employ robots to take human jobs should pay taxes. Fair ‘nuff, but it makes one wonder: Can smart machines and humans happily co-exist? Or are we doomed to a […]

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Streets as Storytellers: Defining Places and Connecting People

At the recent 2017 APA National Planning Conference in New York City, CallisonRTKL released Urban Shift, a compilation of trends and influencers driving the design and development of modern cities along with key project examples. This post is the fourth in a series that takes Urban Shift a step further in exploring how urban planners […]

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