December 2010
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“After analyzing the first sets of city data — the physicists began with...”
– A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
Dec 27th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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The Marty Markowitz Memorial Parking Lot
The Atlantic Yards: it’s got to be Marty Markowitz’s worst nightmare at this point. Originally designed to be a towering testament to Brooklyn with fancy buildings designed by architect du jour Frank Gehry, it was then scaled down to a few towers and an arena that looked suspiciously like the field house for an under-endowed college in a small town. Markowitz, blithely ignoring the...
Dec 8th
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bashford: Matthew Young visited several major cities, asked people one question (What is ‘The City’ to you?) and then animated the findings. Excellent.
Dec 8th
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“On a day when the cafe Internet connection had already been down for four hours,...”
– Where Open Laptops Mean a Buzz of (Quiet) Activity - NYTimes.com
Dec 5th
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500 mile per hour internet, from Lufthansa CloudStream on Vimeo
Dec 5th
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Lufthansa adds Cloudstream and internet content to...
by Grant Martin on Dec 3rd 2010 at 2:00PM Up until late this year, internet access has been a privelege served only to those flying on domestic carriers — the signal delivered on most of those flights is provided by land-based mobile phone towers. Those flying overseas, conversely, were doomed to their overhead video projectors and DIY in-flight entertainment. With satellite communication,...
Dec 5th
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Dec 1st
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An Architecture of Resistance
“If the value of real estate in the traditional urban fabric is determined by location, location, location… then the value of a network connection is determined by bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth… The bondage of bandwidth is displacing the tyranny of distance, and a new economy in which high-bandwidth connectivity is and increasingly crucial variable.” (p. 17) William J. Mitchell....
Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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The Frictions of Space
The frictions of space produced by modern economic growth illustrate the complex nature of the movement of people and the movement of goods. The development of New York Harbor provides an example of how the often overlooked infrastructure of freight transportation can serve as a critical modifier of regional growth. Pubic transportation is, by definition, a visible and democratic regional...
Dec 1st