web01.fireside.fm Tue, 05 May 2026 07:58:34 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Not There Yet - Episodes Tagged with “Cities” https://www.ntyessays.com/tags/cities Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:00:00 -0600 The Not There Yet podcast is a ongoing series of short essays covering a wide range of subjects from the perspective of the third decade of the 21st century. They are intended to be thought provoking, challenging, skeptical and hopefully funny once in a while. They are sometimes conventional in nature and others are a little more experimental. They cover science, history, sports, technology, philosophy or just about whatever subject comes to mind. Sometimes they look forward, other times they look back. They will not, however, take up a lot of your time and will be told in an interesting and accessible way. en-us episodic Eclectic essays podcasted from the third decade of the 21st century. Terence C. Gannon The Not There Yet podcast is a ongoing series of short essays covering a wide range of subjects from the perspective of the third decade of the 21st century. They are intended to be thought provoking, challenging, skeptical and hopefully funny once in a while. They are sometimes conventional in nature and others are a little more experimental. They cover science, history, sports, technology, philosophy or just about whatever subject comes to mind. Sometimes they look forward, other times they look back. They will not, however, take up a lot of your time and will be told in an interesting and accessible way. no Terence C. Gannon ntyessays@intellog.com Shooting Craps with the Grandkids’ Cash https://www.ntyessays.com/048 6ff31d7e-d95f-46a5-93d1-90b315369fbf Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:00:00 -0600 Terence C. Gannon full Terence C. Gannon Some thoughts on a failed Olympic bid and what it tells us about the shocking randomness of how we build our cities. 20:02 no <h3>Some thoughts on a failed Olympic bid and what it tells us about the shocking randomness of how we build our cities.</h3> <p>Although it has been many years since I last wrote computer code ‘to save my life’ I still vividly remember the five basic phases of the <em>Cost of Change Curve</em> associated with software development projects. While the fine details are now dim and distant the basic idea is this: the cost of making a given change rises exponentially as we work our way from the first phase, <em>Requirements</em>, through the intermediate <em>Analysis</em>, <em>Coding</em> and <em>Testing</em> phases and then finally to the <em>Production</em> phase. Plot the costs on a graph and the main characteristic is the skyward-to-infinity spike as we get to the latter phases of the project...</p> <p><em>Listen to the rest by clicking the play button, above. The <a href="https://medium.com/@TerenceCGannon/shooting-craps-with-the-grandkids-cash-c8e7252fe9db" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">text version of this essay</a> can be found on <a href="https://medium.com/@TerenceCGannon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Medium</a> where it was published contemporaneously. They key image for this episode is of Pacific Electric Railway cars awaiting destruction on Terminal Island, California in 1956. (image credit: UCLA Library Digital Collections)</em> </p> Olympics, Urban Planning, City Governance, Cities, Calgary Some thoughts on a failed Olympic bid and what it tells us about the shocking randomness of how we build our cities.

Although it has been many years since I last wrote computer code ‘to save my life’ I still vividly remember the five basic phases of the Cost of Change Curve associated with software development projects. While the fine details are now dim and distant the basic idea is this: the cost of making a given change rises exponentially as we work our way from the first phase, Requirements, through the intermediate Analysis, Coding and Testing phases and then finally to the Production phase. Plot the costs on a graph and the main characteristic is the skyward-to-infinity spike as we get to the latter phases of the project...

Listen to the rest by clicking the play button, above. The text version of this essay can be found on Medium where it was published contemporaneously. They key image for this episode is of Pacific Electric Railway cars awaiting destruction on Terminal Island, California in 1956. (image credit: UCLA Library Digital Collections)

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Although it has been many years since I last wrote computer code ‘to save my life’ I still vividly remember the five basic phases of the Cost of Change Curve associated with software development projects. While the fine details are now dim and distant the basic idea is this: the cost of making a given change rises exponentially as we work our way from the first phase, Requirements, through the intermediate Analysis, Coding and Testing phases and then finally to the Production phase. Plot the costs on a graph and the main characteristic is the skyward-to-infinity spike as we get to the latter phases of the project...

Listen to the rest by clicking the play button, above. The text version of this essay can be found on Medium where it was published contemporaneously. They key image for this episode is of Pacific Electric Railway cars awaiting destruction on Terminal Island, California in 1956. (image credit: UCLA Library Digital Collections)

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