Had a great time at the #SmartificationofEverything Conference! I talked about the need to reframe the discussion of smart cities and urban tech platforms to consider their dependency on the infrastructural landscapes & material geographies that increasingly encompass the globe.
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Here is another case of coarse misrepresentation: in “A Brief History of Landscape Research” Marc Antrop (U Ghent, Belgium) claims there are societies with and without landscape. He asserts unlike Europeans, Middle Eastern cultures are societies without landscape...
I’m happy to share my recent article on the extended geography of smart urbanism. Part of a special issue of Telematics and Informatics edited by the wonderful @jathansadowski and @DrTooran Available freely and open access for the next 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1bsj5…
A more visual counterpart to the article can be found here:
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The private home is not an isolated unit but a living system within a mass of systems, requiring the labor of many
"Home Body" by @k_pendergrast reallifemag.com/home-body/
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The smart city is dead — if it was even alive in the first place. In its place, as I argue in this new essay, an urban war machine is emerging that is built to empower police, not the public or planners. Welcome to the captured city. reallifemag.com/the-captured…
Looking forward to a fantastic lecture by @shannonmattern this Friday at @UVaSARC
Join us on Nov. 8 at 5PM in Campbell Hall to hear the Myles H. Thaler lecture with Shannon Mattern. The "Glimmer: Refracting Rocks" talk will explore three aspects of lithic illumination. Learn more here at.virginia.edu/32M9nbZ
This looks great! Can't wait to dig in...
OUT NOW: "How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables" | Available to buy & download at meatspacepress.com
File under: Grounding_the_Cloud/Farms/North_Carolina: 1) Cloud Triangle outside of Charlotte, NC; 2) Google data campus, Lenoir; 3) Facebook data centers, Forest City; 4) Apple data centers and solar farm,… instagram.com/p/B3aXl35pX4u/… – at Charlottesville, VA
Toronto is engaged! At the third public consultation meeting on #quayside @SidewalkToronto @WaterfrontTO Impressive turnout and great/important set of constructive questions and concerns
Great points! Unpaid internships everywhere must stop. They are detrimental to the value of the work we do as designers, and inhumane.
Architects (like Ishigama) who rely on unpaid interns and other questionable/predatory employment practices do not deserve to win public commissions — high-profile or otherwise. What they do deserve is to be called out.
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As Hudson Yards opens, a video review of the biggest, slickest private development in New York in a century. “Hudson Yards glorifies a kind of surface spectacle,” @kimmelman writes, “as if the peak ambitions of city life were consuming luxury goods.” nyti.ms/2TNPYGa
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Dear Friends, thanks for all the notes and emails asking about the new book, #TheAgeofSurveillanceCapitalism. It will be out in the US Jan 15; UK Jan 31. After 7 years under construction, I am very excited to share.
