“Sandy hit but reports events verified from the Wire services or local media after. Click on a dot to see an event – or download data for yourself. Search an address or share view to get the precise url” via The Guardian
Link here “Carlos Bueno, author of a kids’ book about understanding computers called Lauren Ipsum, describes what happens when the cadre of competing bots that infest Amazon’s sales-database began to viciously fight with one another over pricing for his book. It’s a damned weird story. “
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““We weren’t fully going back to nature with our plan,” Mr. Cassell said. “We thought of it more as engineered ecology. But if you look at the history of Manhattan, we have pushed nature off the island and replaced it with man-made infrastructure. What we can do is start to reintegrate things and make the […]
“THE REGIONAL MODEL. Only closed cities are cut off from their surrounding regions; open cities are not. The blue islands are startling because they provide stark evidence that we live in closed cities. This evidence flies in the face of some of the most basic assumptions about our present modes of urbanization. The urban fabric […]
by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer “Visible over a 15-Km radius, Articulated Intersect is meant to amplify participation to an urban scale, creating personalized light sculptures that segment the sky. Inspired by Argentinean Gyula Kosice and Brazilian Lygia Clark’s articulated sculptures from the 40s to 60s this project seeks to create intimacy and complicity in a constantly unfolding […]