October 2011
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Oct 25th
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“Urban design and architecture have become responsive professions. It is typical...”
– - Christopher Marcinkoski PORT A U (ARCHITECTURE URBANISM) - MAScontext
Oct 25th
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Eutopía 11: Taller de Urbanismo táctico - Iuventus... →
Oct 19th
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Learning from Hamar
”(…) Educated as an architect and urban designer I have the same experience as most architects have – dealing with projects shifting from conception to realization. Up until now any project I have worked on had a similar way of developing: Meeting he clients, receiving the programme, site and budget, researching and developing it with other experts, making it work together in the most...
Oct 19th
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Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library — every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history … It’s all free to the public — unless someone else gets to it first. Source: TED Talk
Oct 19th
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Oct 17th
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Ecumenópolis: ciudad de bits 17.octubre.2011
Ciudad de Bits: el próximo lunes 17 a las 19h nos vemos en ecumenopolis-coac, estaremos con Guillem Aloy invitados como parte del colectivo zzzinc, por nuestra parte acudirá Paco González. “City of Bits. Space, Place, and the Infobahn.” fue publicado por William J. Mitchell en Agosto de 1996, seis años después de la creación del primer servidor web, marcando el momento académico en el que la...
Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 9th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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“Just as the kingdoms and empires of old struggled for control of terrestrial...”
– William J. Mitchell Mitchell, William J. (2003) Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City [text, google books]. The MIT Press [5 oct 2011] Thanks to Efraín Foglia
Oct 5th
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Streetsblog San Francisco » Mapping Your City with... →
Data visualization is the rage right now, as city managers release ever more information through open source APIs and creative programmers tease out trends in colorful maps and images, beautifully depicting statistics that would otherwise be stuck in a dense spreadsheet only an actuary could love. Media foundations have been busy giving money to pioneering shops like Stamen, while those in the...
Oct 5th
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The Long Zoom - Steven Johnson - NYT
Most eras have distinct “ways of seeing” that end up defining the period in retrospect: the fixed perspective of Renaissance art, the scattered collages of Cubism, the rapid-fire cuts introduced by MTV and the channel-surfing of the 80’s. Our own defining view is what you might call the long zoom: the satellites tracking in on license-plate numbers in the spy movies; the Google maps in which a few...
Oct 4th
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