January 2012
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Hoy, en las ciudades sobra gente. Ya no hacen...
De la entrevista de Saskia Sassen en El País es difícil no destacar todo, quizás lo que más me ha llamado la atención sea el título escogido para el post y de ahí el extracto que replico más abajo.
El afirmar que el problema es la ciudad -lo contrario de la convención actual instituída- y los argumentos que utiliza, me han hecho pensar en otras posibilidades para la ciudad aunque no me sienta del...
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The Future of the Unplanned City - airoots.org →
… City users / city makers
Out of the agents that energise and produce the natural city, the post industrial artisan, the local contractor and the hardware dealer, are key characters. The local contractor is at once businessman, community player and a possible political figure. He knows the nuts and bolts of his constantly forming environment like no one else. We see him as part of the larger...
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Collaborative, Creative Placemaking: Good Public... →
“More than ever before, public artworks are stimulating and inviting active dialogue rather than just passive observation, thereby fostering social interaction that can even lead to a sense of social cohesion among the viewers themselves. Maybe this is happening because some planners, artists, and architects are no longer afraid to see themselves as resources, facilitators, and...
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Social Cities of Tomorrow conference text. By... →
Excerpts from Social Cities of Tomorrow conference text by Michiel de Lange & Martijn de Waal.
Note: The bolds are mine.
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Can digital technologies enable citizens to act on collectively shared issues?
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We see three promising interrelated developments where urban technologies may be used to create livable and lively cities.
1. Data-commons
Sensing technologies and...
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Visualizing the Costs of Incarceration in the US
digitalurbanisms points out what can be done when we use visualization for a urbanism purpose. In this case we can relate costs of incarceration in the US with investments in city’s neighborhoods:
“It cost 17 million dollars to imprison 109 People from these 17 blocks in 2003. We call these million dollar blocks. On a financial scale prisons are becoming the predominant governing...
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When Air Defense Ran on Room-Sized Computers and Punch Cards
IBM’s SAGE air defense system looks like it belongs in a Cold War-era James Bond film, but this is a real IBM ad from the 1960s, courtesy of the Internet Archive.
/via Laughing Squid : theatlanticvideo
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openp2pdesign.org » An interview with Open Design... →
Massimo Menichinelli: Could you please tell us the story of Open Design City, how it started and what is planned for the near future?
Jay Cousins – Pedro Pineda – Christophe Vaillant Open Design City happened by accident, starting from an existing community, with an event in Betahaus in February 2010.
Various makers from Berlin and other places met for an Open Design Event, which resulted in a...
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