Urban Communication

This is the official weblog of the Urban Communication Foundation. It is devoted to the ongoing discussion of the intersection between urban form, technology and communication.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism

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Richard Longworth, an international correspondent for the Chicago Tribune , traveled for thousands of miles across the Midwest to understa...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

City Lights from Space

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The photographs of Earth taken by the Apollo astronauts, which framed the Earth as a whole in the lonely context of space, helped foster an ...
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Women in the City

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"Women in the City" is a viral public art exhibition spread throughout the streets of Los Angeles that began in February 2008.

Double One Way Communication

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Given the density of the city and advances in communication technology, it is unsurprising that the environment we live in is being saturate...
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White Art

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White art, the use of bacon fat back, is one of the less well known urban communication media. This book is titled, White Art in the Meat Fo...
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Massive Investment in Urban Communication

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Toronto is investing $1 billion dollars over the next twenty years in street furniture. Street furniture include a variety of things: We...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Type City

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The Web has created fascinating new communication spaces, as passionate designers deploy specialized talents to delight and inspire new audi...
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Happy May 1

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Washington's Other Monuments

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Washington is both the public face of America and a city without Congressional representation. The formal landscape of public Washington is...

Banksy was Here

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The British grafitti artist Bansky encapsulates all of the ironies associated with the postmodern city. He is both famous and anonymous, hi...
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Nomads at Last

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The Economist recently wrote an article about the impact of wireless communication and urban nomadism. The term nomad is deeply misleading...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Urban Abstract

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Skateboard graphics are one urban communication medium this blog has failed to adequately examine. Evan Hecox, previously known for his wor...
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Ghost Signs

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Ghost Signs is a website developed by Nicole Donohoe, MS candidate in Historic Preservation at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Th...
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The Endless City

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The Endless City , a new book edited by the London School of Economics' Ricky Burdett and design curator Deyan Sudjic, presents the work...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

VISUALIZING GREEN: COMMUNICATING ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLINESS THROUGH PRODUCT DESIGN AND APPEARANCE - Artek Culturelab

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Finnish industrial designer Pekka Kumpula offers three concepts developed at Artek Culturelab to Visualize Green through the design of prod...
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Bricoleurbanism� Urban Fabric & Form Comparison

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The Bricoleurbanism blog recently posted a story about urban form that is important to urban communication. Jane Jacobs always emphasized ...
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Urban Typography Workshop

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Mediamatic.net - On the Urban Typography workshop Urban Typography: what does your city say to you and what do you say to your city? This wo...
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Shack/Slum Dwellers International

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The "digital divide" has been a topic of concern for more than a decade. But having a voice in decisions that matter in a global,...
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Nokia Morph Concept

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Cellphones have an obvious connection to urban communication networks via wireless connections. But increasingly objects are designed so th...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008

IXDA Interaction 08

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The urban and the virtual are brought together more tightly everyday, creating the social spaces we now live in. Can the interactions among...
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Conceptions of the Desireable

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130 acres in Graz, Austria are being redeveloped--one of the last chunks of open space left to develop in Europe. Unhappy with top down app...
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