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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 canonical smart city: A pastiche
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wrote 2 months ago: Consider this a shooting script for one of those concept videos so beloved of the big technology ven … more →
The City Is Here For You To Use: 100 easy pieces
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wrote 6 months ago: On the first of January, 2008, I promised you a book about the things I saw happening at the interse … more →
chicago chicago
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wrote 1 year ago: photo stolen from Okunola Who knew posting one measly update a day would be so tough? Between love, … more →
day trip to milwaukee
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wrote 1 year ago: I grew up seeing this poster everywhere: living rooms, basements, schools, churches, or wheat-pasted … more →
summertime chicago: two things to do this weekend
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m so sad for you if you don’t live in Chicago. I know I profess my love for this city … more →
week without a car: days two and three
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wrote 1 year ago: This is becoming an old hat for me, ladies and gentlemen. I’m leaving the house later and late … more →
week without a car: day one
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wrote 1 year ago: Photo By Eric Allix Rogers used under Creative Commons For reasons that partly involve a temperament … more →
learnapalooza!
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wrote 2 years ago: I was exasperated. Can you tell? I just wanted one damn photo of this dress I purchased from eBay se … 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 →
the silver room: a call for artists
wrote 2 years ago: I love The Silver Room. A boutique on Milwaukee Avenue here in Chicago, it’s my go-to place fo … more →
"Real artists ship"
wrote 2 years ago: It’s been a big week hereabouts. In particular, two pieces of Do projects news to share with y … more →
the aftermath
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wrote 2 years ago: This was our block around 3pm on Wednesday afternoon. The Mister and I headed out into the snow on t … 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 →
The sidewalks are for everybody (depending on just how you define "everybody")
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wrote 2 years ago: Coming back to the Upper Haight neighborhood of San Francisco after many years away has been somethi … more →
The new infranormal
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wrote 2 years ago: …So that exhaustive list is apropos of a curious sensation I’ve had, in riding, walking … more →
Maxima/list
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wrote 2 years ago: By infrastructure, one refers to every aspect of the technology of rational administration that rout … more →
chicagoans in toronto
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wrote 2 years ago: There truly are not enough words to describe what an amazing city we found Toronto to be after only … more →
