Attentive Notes: Urban Design, Democracy Preservation, Retail Issues

1. Allegra Kirkland for Alternet: 5 Ways We Design Our Cities to Make Them Inhospitable to Human Life (Photos)
Hostile architecture prevents society’s unwanted from inhabiting public spaces.

2. 'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention

3. Retail, the Comic Strip by Norm Feuti - Issues of the Retail Trade

Radio, Active: Pipelines

Listening to Cross-Country Checkup and its discussion on the consequences of the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline project.

Speaking for myself, whatever one thinks of climate derangement, I'm grateful for my lungs' sake for the cancellation decision.