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Mar 15, 2010
I think you are really onto something here. Ecosystems are multi-sided models that stimulate and then capture externalities as nutrients, and the future of design and business is (I believe as do you) based on a biomimetic approach that immitates ecosystems. I've called these Deep Multi-Sided Business Models at http://kenarcher.typepad.com/machines_for_living/2009/02/deep-multisided-business-models.html.
Urban renewal: approaching sites as ecosystems
Over at U.K. construction magazine Building, urban renewal specialist Jackie Sadek comments on the impact of the recession on the industry and makes the point that Developers who can respond, not just on ability to deliver but on a range of social objectives, stand to become "partners of cho...
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