Monday, November 27, 2006

Ubiquitous City

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As tems like convergence move from buzzword to everyday life, experiments with urban form are expanding in scale. In South Korea, "Wha...
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Sunday, November 26, 2006

Down the D Line

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Speaking of audio tours of cities, check out this fantastic audio tour of Boston's D line train. This project was made by one of my stu...
Saturday, November 25, 2006

Sounds of the City

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The latest issue of the Chicago Reader ran a little blurb in their free shit section about an audio tour of the Loop. Folks can download an...
Monday, November 20, 2006

First Ad viewable from Space

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KFC has produced the first ad viewable from space. Will we have to regulate our views from outer space now? According to Michael Castellon ...
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Frappr

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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Thoughts on San Antonio

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The Urban Communications Foundation held a day-long seminar in San Antonio this week. We brought together a number of people to discuss the ...
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Polling Place Photo Project

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"The Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that seeks to empower citizens to capture, post and s...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

Space, Time, and Containers

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A technology as simple as standardizing the size and couplings of a box has utterly transformed global commerce over the past 40 years. Wit...

CLIFFORD GEERTZ 1926-2006

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Clifford Geertz passed away this week. In memory of his work, I'd like to select one quotation that might serve as an inspiration to th...

Virtual Transforms Real?

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This USA Today article is helpful because it continues to erase the line between the physical world and the virtual world. New communicatio...
Monday, October 30, 2006

42nd Street Makeover

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Urban planners are pushing to transform 42nd Street into a pedestrian mall, complete with its own street-level rail line. The transformation...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Color is a Communication Tool

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The connection between urban space and communication occurs on many levels. Industrial designer Ruth Lande Shuman founded Publicor, which h...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

Surveillance Cameras on Every Block

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Mayor Daley is willing to bet that by 2016 Chicago will have a surveillance camera on every block in the city. This technology transforms e...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Interactive Social Asset Mapping

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I'm originally from the Calumet Region, which stretches along the shoreline of Lake Michigan from the southside of Chicago to Michigan C...
Saturday, September 30, 2006

Concertino for Cellular Phones and Orchestra

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Composer John Cage developed a large-scale, participative music project for Chicago at Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's School of Design in the 1930...
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Parks, Memory and Time

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A well-designed memorial creates a deeper connection between place and time, personal and public, art and politics. This project describes...
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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Smells of the City

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As Google Map mashups go, this is a great one. I could see putting this on my cell phone and cross referencing as I navigate the city's...

Who Cares about parks these days?

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What is the future of public space in America's cities? This article picks five exemplary projects and aims to answer that very daunti...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

EPIC 2006

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As new information technologies move out of labs, corporate settings, and classrooms and ever more deeply into the everyday experience of pe...

Guangshen Highway

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For years, the Doors of Perception Conference has offered innovative ways of thinking about technology, design, and urban form. In this pre...
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