Tom Fisher

I am the Director of the Metropolitan Design Center in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, and a professor in the School of Architecture.

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Check out my piece in Huffington Post on the the recently deceased and greatly talented designer, Michael Graves. http://t.co/7Uy6auUIgO

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The "Carbon-Combustion Complex," as Oreskes and Conway call it, drives our economy, creating a paradox: we use more oil the cheaper it gets.

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If you need a reason why we need to take climate change seriously, read Oreskes and Conway's new book The Collapse of Western Civilization.

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Have been away from Twitter for over a year. Completed two book manuscripts now off to two different publishers; both should be out in 2016.

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Stephen Mouzon's new book, New Media for Designers + Builders is the best book I've seen on new media for new media novices. Worth reading!

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Low taxes and suburban sprawl don't mix. The latter needs a lot infrastructure, making higher taxes inevitable. Low taxes demand density!

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Mayo's Transform conference showed how design has reduced the cost and improved the quality of healthcare by keeping us out of hospitals.

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Luis Bettencourt in a June issue of Science shows how cities offer a way of reducing our ecological footprint. Can we urbanize fast enough?

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A lot of angry clouds today. Shouldn't we all be angry that, because of our own behavior as a species, we have caused so much angry weather?

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Check out my latest piece in the Huffington Post: http://t.co/F3wnjeh0x0

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A great piece in Harpers about the future of reading, by Mark Kingwell, one of Canada's most insightful thinkers: http://t.co/L4QwTG12pG

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Is Detroit's fiscal bankruptcy a result of its social desolation, with communities emptied out? Are financial and social capital connected?

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Bankrupt Detroit might do what a nearly broke Bridgeport, CT, once proposed: abolishing the city and ceding its parts to wealthier suburbs.

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Saw two films: one about Siberian hunters, the other about Park Ave. billionaires. The moral: You can be rich and happy, but it's unlikely.

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An old cars drove around my neighborhood today, I thought: we all now live in a kind of space-time, with many eras occupying the same road.

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Rode my bike today as cars zoomed by and wondered who had more power. Say they get 40 mpg; my bike gets the caloric equivalent of 4000 mpg.

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Having completed a book and a vacation, I am back tweeting, wondering how this medium can be a force not just for information, but insight.

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Public boarding schools can close the achievement gap in education and shift funding from prisons to schools: - http://t.co/BQdFwtF0Ut.

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Check out my latest piece in the Huffington Post, http://t.co/qzBln5ytZJ, on the negative impact of political party branding.

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See my latest Huffington Post piece: http://t.co/fDdDxWVJn0, about how to make higher ed healthier.