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Stealthy, slippery, crusty, prickly and jittery redux: On design interventions intended to make space inhospitable
From Mitchell Duneier’s Sidewalk, 1999. The context is a discussion of various physical interventions that have been made in the fabric of New York City’s Pennsylvania Station: On a walk t… more →
Adam Greenfield's Speedbird
Stealthy, slippery, crusty, prickly and jittery redux: On design interventions intended to make space inhospitable
wrote 1 month ago: From Mitchell Duneier’s Sidewalk, 1999. The context is a discussion of various physical interv … more →
The quantified self
wrote 5 months ago: Sometime in the early 1980s — I can’t have been any older than 14 — I tagged along with my fat … more →
Further to notes on a diagram of Occupy Sandy
wrote 6 months ago: Yes, enumerate the carriage parts — still not a carriage. When you begin making decisions and cuttin … more →
You lookin' at me?
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wrote 2 years ago: I confess to being both heartened and frustrated by John Geraci’s new post on “the user … more →
Introducing Urbanscale
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wrote 2 years ago: And this is what everything that came before was leading up to: Urbanscale, design for networked cit … more →
The Rockefeller Foundation on "the future of crowdsourced cities"
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wrote 2 years ago: Crossposted on Urbanscale. I had the pleasure of spending Thursday and Friday of week before last im … more →
Harvey Milk, community development and the digital balance sheet
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wrote 3 years ago: For a very long time now, I’ve been inspired by the story of Harvey Milk, his serial failed ca … more →
Zeitgeist week '09
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wrote 3 years ago: If you’re at all interested in questions of networked urbanism, digital fabrication or interac … more →
Fall Foliage Cruises
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wrote 3 years ago: If you’ve got the money and you’ve got the time, then there’s no better way to welcome the autumn se … more →
UO me
wrote 3 years ago: Hey, just wanted to point you-all at a quick piece I did for Urban Omnibus, reacting to the recent a … more →
The January agenda
wrote 4 years ago: Just a reminder for those of you who may be interested: I’m doing two public talks in January, … more →
The urbanists
wrote 4 years ago: Hey hey hey! This is Lee Paris Adam Greenfield, and I’m coming to your town! If your town is N … more →
Toward the sentient city
wrote 4 years ago: Of all the many pleasures of metropolitan life that we left behind, at least temporarily, when we mo … more →
A kid's Brooklyn
wrote 4 years ago: I’m a teacher and a dad-to-be (!) so I’ve pretty much always got kids on the mind. I just put togeth … more →
Romantic Getaways in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
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wrote 4 years ago: As promised, the list continues! This time we find secret hideaways in the New York, New Jersey, and … more →
Yoga and Meditation Resorts in the US
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wrote 4 years ago: I just spent the most wonderful, centering, relaxing, balancing week at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ra … more →
Presidential Memorials
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wrote 4 years ago: In continuation of our goal to promote the vote in our Political Orientation Month, we thought we’d … more →
Best City Skylines and Architectural Museums
wrote 4 years ago: I guess it should come as no surprise that the biggest cities have the best skylines. Generally spea … more →
Fall Foliage in New York City, (part 2)
wrote 4 years ago: Another (see my post on New York Fall Foliage) great way to appreciate the changing colors of New Yo … more →
