James Corner: The Long View (Metropolis)
Corner has spent the last 25 years becoming that guy in a deliberate attempt to reinvent the field of landscape architecture by pushing aside its second-fiddle status and antiurban tendencies and...
View ArticleIn Praise of Slowness (Urban Omnibus)
The city is slow, and we write too fast. Hollywood marketers talk about “eventizing” a movie, and architecture marketers have caught on to the strategy as well.
View ArticleInfrastructure: Tracking the Future (Metropolis Mag)
The city begins crumbling as soon as it has been constructed. Beneath every new project lies the rubble of another. In the United States today, that’s an important insight. Infrastructure is being...
View ArticleRedesigning the Sky (WIRED)
Nearly all US flight delays can be traced to the snarl of jets over New York City. How do you squeeze more efficiency out of an archaic air traffic control system? Redesign the sky.
View ArticleMetaphor Remediation: A New Ecology for the City (Places Journal)
Confronting climate change and ecological collapse, environmentalists increasingly see urban areas as the most promising engines of sustainability. Two converging realizations — the efficiency of...
View ArticleThe Bandwidth of Urban Experience (Wired UK)
When it comes to technology and cities, today's thrilling development - "thrilling", that is, if you like real cities and corporeal people - is that social networking is enhancing urban places.
View ArticleNetscapes (WIRED)
The Internet surrounds us like air, saturating our offices and our homes. But it’s not confined to the ether. You can touch it. You can map it. And you can photograph it. Here are five postcards from...
View ArticleHere but Not Here
Architecture has yet to acknowledge the impact of social media on our experience of physical space. Our experience of the world around us has changed to a degree not seen since the arrival of trains...
View ArticleTED Talk: What is the Internet, really?
When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables,...
View ArticleChildren of the Drone
Marcel Duchamp had his urinal. Andy Warhol had his soup can. James Bridle has his . . . drone? With his first major U.S. museum exhibition opening this week at Washington’s Corcoran Gallery of Art and...
View ArticleUrban Giants
A short historical documentary about the intertwined telecom history of the Western Union and AT&T Long Lines buildings
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