February 2011
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Rentalship Is The New Ownership in the Networked... →
infoneer-pulse: What matters in the new era is not your physical wealth, but your reputation. As long as you’ve built up a rep for trustworthiness, there’s no reason you can’t benefit from access to a wealth of products and services when you need them. The trend isn’t entirely new — we’ve had toy libraries since the 1930s — but the net makes us all prospective members and collaborators. And...
Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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January 2011
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bashford: Cities can be considered “flows of information, vehicles and people” (Sheller, 2007) transported along diverse urban networks. In this Flowprint of London by URBAGRAM, the city’s extensive bus network is used to sketch an animated portrait of the living city.
Jan 31st
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Jan 26th
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EchoDitto →
We envision a world greater connected through emerging technologies where citizens build digital communities and engage in collective transformational action. We build these communities for our clients and offer the full spectrum of digital services, from initial strategy development to implementation and analysis. We execute successful online communications and marketing campaigns, create new...
Jan 26th
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Berkman Center for Internet and Society →
The Berkman Center was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace. We investigate the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of code,...
Jan 26th
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Matt Storus Architecture →
How do you start? What steps follow? What does your methodology privilege, and what does it diminish?
Jan 25th
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“Architecture only survives […] where it negates itself by transgressing the...”
– Bernard Tschumi (via kliniczero)
Jan 24th
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Where High Speed Internet Meets Smart Grid
Chattanooga, Tennessee, utility EPB hit two milestones in the last two weeks of 2010: It completed the final touches on one of the fastest internet pipelines in the world, and it activated the first automated switches on its electricity network. The combination constitutes the backbone for a Department of Energy–funded smart grid network that’s expected to save the utility and area businesses tens...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Digital, Intelligent, Smart Cities: Ten years... →
This collection of books from 2000 to 2010 examines the role and contribution of information technologies, the Internet, innovation ecosystems and institutions to the making of the 21st century cities. Books are presented by chronological order of publication and summaries are by the authors or publishers. humanscalecities:
Jan 17th
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“Once we get more people, I want to rename it the Brooklyn Arts and Design Arena...”
– Al Attara Seven Stories, and Loads of Ideas, in Brooklyn - NYTimes.com
Jan 14th
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One of four scenarios exploring how we will live and travel in the cities of 2040. Communi-city: The world has turned to alternative energy, and transport is highly personalised with a huge variety of transport modes competing for road space. Megacities on the move - Communi-city (by Forum for the Future)
Jan 11th