Can a road diet reduce the 17% vacancy rate along Seattle’s Rainier Avenue South?
connecting the neighborhood: a social network analysis and visualization of columbia city
Using social network analysis and data visualization to connect a neighborhood.
average income and rent by seattle light rail station
How would you map the impact of light rail expansion on income inequality and cost of housing?
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