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It's interesting that these units (even without plumbing/ sewer hook-ups) are so incredibly expensive...
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One approach to combating the problem [of human waste on public streets/ parks/ stoops/ etc.] is to build the restroom equivalent of the city’s innovative "parklets," which are small public spaces built to fit within a few street parking spaces. "Pooplets" could provide publicly accessible toilet facilities. And through advances in composting toilet technology, these public toilets wouldn’t need to have expensive plumbing or sewage system hookups, keeping the cost at an estimated $40,000 to $50,000.
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Why demolish one of the Bay Area's most recognizable structures rather than retain at least some of it for public use? "There's no reason it can't be transformed into something wondrous, a fusion of nature and the machine," said Frederic Schwartz, a New York architect who spent last fall as the college's Joseph Esherick Visiting Professor in Architecture.
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Inspired by NYC's High Line, Frederic Schwartz's students re-purposed the Bay Bridge (slated for demolition).

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I watched this video a couple of days ago (via PSFK's Twitter feed), and loved the emphases brought to light by the interviews.

- Entrepreneurs liked the density of the city -- the ability to encounter colleagues by chance, run into folks, rub shoulders;
- Some talked about liking the "small" aspects of San Francisco: that there isn't *so* much going on to distract one's attention from the tasks (work) at hand

I thought that latter point was kind of intriguing, something to remember when someone once again goes off on how it's such a bad thing that *this* isn't as happening a place as NYC or <snort> Toronto.

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LOL, this sounds like Victoria, BC, too...

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