October 2010
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“As a bullet train seeks its target, shining rails in every part of our great...”
– Opening from “Grand Central Station,” broadcast over the NBC Radio Network in the 1930s
via New York State DOT: Railroad Stations/Intermodal Facilities
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“In a world of ubiquitous computation and telecommunication, electronically...”
– Bill Mitchell. City of Bits. 1995. p. 107.
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reading Richard T.T. Forman
Networks
A network is composed of nodes and linkages, or corridors of a single type, usually surrounded by a matrix. Nodes are located at the intersections of linkages, or are attached to a linkage between intersection nodes. Networks change in form through the addition and removal of individual corridors. Flexibility or adaptability also affects network form. Thus, a system with more rather than...
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reading Bélanger
“The financial magnitude and logistical complexity of the challenge facing the North American economy can no longer be resolved by singular, specialized or technocratic disciplines such as civil engineering or urban planning that once dominated 20th-century reform.”
The increasing interconnectedness of the modern market economy has led to an exponential growth in the complexity of...
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“Remember that suburban sprawl is the idiot savant of urban planning, able to...”
– Andrés Duany. ”A general Theory of Sustainable Urbanism.” Ecological Urbanism. Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty, eds. 2010: 406.
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“Once the sole purview of the profession of civil engineering,...”
– Pierre Bélanger, “Landscape as Infrastructure,” in Landscape Journal 28:1‐09. 91.
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Watch
The Network Architecture Lab (in collaboration with Park) tied for first in the Build a Better Burb ideas competition with Long Division, its project to reimagine Long Island for the twenty-first century.
Sponsored by the Long Island Index, a project of the Rauch Foundation, Build a Better Burb set out to identify solutions for making suburbs better, more sustainable places to live. The Long...
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Small Scale, Big Change. →
“Architecture is rediscovering its social conscience. That’s the message behind “Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement,” an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
…the exhibition makes a powerful case that it is possible to create work that is both socially uplifting and architecturally compelling. It’s a notion that dominated architectural thought for much...
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Big Data from Sensor Networks →
nosql:
What have drones or Boeings in common with NoSQL? The answer even if not obvious is Big Data.
We’re always amazed about the amount of digital content created by humans online. But if we look at sensor networks things are even more impressive:
For example, a Boeing jet generates 10 terabytes of information per engine every 30 minutes of flight, according to Stephen Brobst, the CTO of...
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“Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world,” he said....”
– BBC News - Wiliam Gibson says the future is right here, right now (via bashford)
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“Most of the artifacts that surround us today seem to possess a fraction only of...”
– Antoine Picon. Digital culture in architecture (2010): 118.
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“Sitting in traffic on a Los Angeles freeway, looking at my edits for this essay,...”
– Benjamin H Bratton. “iPhone City”. AD Special Issue: Digital Cities. July/August 2009 Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 90-97.
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“In connection with the rise of digital culture, [architects] main contribution...”
– Antoine Picon. Digital culture in architecture (2010). 55 - 56.
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“Digital architecture cannot be separated from the changes that affect the way we...”
– Antoine Picon. Digital culture in architecture (2010). pp. 11 - 12.
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NYTimes - Plenty of Ideas for Improving New York's... →
alessandro-k:
I think it’s a great idea to replace the Grand Central-Times Square shuttle with moving sidewalks. I’ve thought for a while that underground travellator corridors would be better at getting people across town than some of the current options. They should build subterranean concourses under midtown, running the full width crosstown, line them with shops open 24 hours, and have the...
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Manifesto for a new idea of Localism
1 Planetary architecture plays a key role in the daily conflict between global flows and territorial change. This is a conflict where globalization – i.e. the supremacy of transnational flows as opposed to historic places – has led, paradoxically, to great emphasis on the innate specificity of local spaces. 2 The “local space” should not be understood merely as a geographical context, or as the...
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“Within metropolitan areas, we found that central cities were almost always...”
– Edward Glaeser. “Temperate and Bounded.” Ecological urbanism. Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty, eds. 2010: 306 - 307.
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National Rail Freight Infrastructure Capacity
[The 2007 National Rail Freight Infrastructure Capacity and Investment Study] is an assessment of the long-term capacity expansion needs of the continental U.S. freight railroads. It provides a first approximation of the rail freight infrastructure improvements and investments needed to meet the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (U.S. DOT) projected demand for rail freight transportation in...
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“I am a contexualist. I pay a lot of attention to where I’m doing things....”
– Gehry on “New York by Gehry”
Frank Gehry Finds a New York Persona With Beekman Tower - WSJ.com
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Design Approaches for the 21st Century City
The experience of our present day city in every day life is increasingly a hybrid one – meaning that it is made up of both physical and mediated experiences that mutually influence, extend or contradict each other. At the same time, the design of our cities is for the most part still a rather stratified process where different disciplines shape the different ‘layers’ of the urban experience.
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