San Francisco office market in collapse as tech workers stay home | San Francisco | The Guardian

“As Silicon Valley businesses shutter offices, the city looks very different. But will the change outlast the coronavirus?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/14/san-francisco-office-leases-tech-industry-covid

“Authors including Nnedi Okorafor, Kim Stanley Robinson and Alastair Reynolds reveal what does, and doesn’t, go into creating their worlds.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/05/if-the-aliens-lay-eggs-how-does-that-affect-architecture-sci-fi-writers-on-how-they-build-their-worlds

Covid pivot: the people who changed careers and flourished in 2020 | Coronavirus | The Guardian

~_“ For many Australians, the pandemic has meant less work security and confidence. But for some the disruption has been a blessing in disguise”_~

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/29/covid-pivot-the-people-who-changed-careers-and-flourished-in-2020

“Mike Strizki powers his house and cars with hydrogen he home-. brews. He is using his retirement to evangelize for the planet-saving advantages of hydrogen batteries.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/business/hydrogen-power-cars.html?referringSource=articleShare

Dreading or dreaming of a return to the office in 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/return-to-office-work-from-home-coronavirus/2020/12/27/9796d0c8-43da-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html

“Because neither the United States nor the world can do without cities.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/opinion/cities-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare

“The future of work is flexibility.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/opinion/covid-offices-remote-work.html?referringSource=articleShare

“Citizens are finally getting the urban patios and parks when the cramped medieval city was extended in the 1900s

by Stephen Burgen in Barcelona”

(Correction: Plan Cerdà was 1859, not “beginning of the 20th century” FYI)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/23/two-way-street-how-barcelona-is-democratising-public-space

“Because neither the United States nor the world can do without cities.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/opinion/cities-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare