How would you map the impact of light rail expansion on income inequality and cost of housing?
Author: sudocity
urbanism and monumentality (3.3)
Monumental telecommunication infrastructure in contemporary urbanism affords a variety of stable, actionable pictures of the city advancing perceptions of individual agency.
Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World by Christopher Steiner
Book Review: A story about the rise of bots and hackers on Wall Street and how the exodus to Silicon Valley is too late to change the rule of algorithms.
against cyber-millenarianism
The singularity and dispensationalism are just two of the new forms of millenarianism mobilizing over information communication technologies.
the enigma of the urban ruins (3.2)
At about 1300sqft, the dimension of the average home has remained remarkably constant throughout history. Could this have to do with home communications?
cities of the plain (3.1)
Cities of the Plain is a name that Mumford uses to point to the origins of the city, but is also commonly used to refer to Sodom and Gomorrah.
from ‘protection’ to destruction (2.5)
Cities have always competed with one another, but is the recent competitiveness for the highest quality of life a break with a past of war between cities?
Invisible Borders: Mapping Social Boundaries and Spatial Practices in Moscow
July 2013, Strelka Institute, Moscow
Using Technology to Mobilize Self-Governance
In May, I was at the Technology University of Delft to share about MikroAct, an action-sharing platform that I’ve been managing with a team based in New York City and Moscow. The conference, “Using ICT, Social Media and Mobile Technologies to Foster Self-Organisation in Urban and Neighbourhood Governance” (still tweetable!), was coordinated by Dr. Reinout Kleinhans, Prof. Dr. Maarten… Continue reading Using Technology to Mobilize Self-Governance
law and urban order (2.4)
Niagara Falls is Toronto’s Coney Island. Where Rem Koolhaas described Coney Island as the appendage of New York City, a Manhattan in miniature, Niagara Falls is the flaccid member of the City of Toronto and even Southwestern Ontario. The Falls swell during the day to impress the throngs of tourists that flock to its frothy… Continue reading law and urban order (2.4)