Entries from February 2006
Television and Google Maps
HBO is getting into the Google Mash-up game. As a promotional tool for the new season of The Sopranos, you can view scences from the upcoming season plotted onto a map. How is this fictional mapping different from the story mapping that is taking place in so much digital art? Aren’t both dissecting narrative and […]
Categories: mediated urbanism · maps
The Bubble Project
This little bit of urban intervention is hours of fun. It’s like a blog in urban space.
Link: The Bubble Project.
Categories: placeofmedia
Foundcity
This project brings together Found Magazine with Google maps. The idea is interesting as a means of public archiving - but it seems to end at archiving. The cultural desire to archive has seemed to have surpassed the desire to analyze or interpret. I’d like to see projects like this that attempt to go beyond […]
Categories: mediated urbanism
Foundcity
Link: Foundcity.
Categories: placeofmedia
The Rise of the Ephemeral City | Metropolis Magazine
Link: The Rise of the Ephemeral City | Metropolis Magazine.
Cities have always been about change. And as we plunge deeper into the millennium, we may now be witnessing the emergence of a new kind of urban place, populated largely by nonfamilies and the nomadic rich. This "ephemeral city" might become the prototype for advanced countries […]
Categories: cities
Virtual maps
Can’t exactly figure out how to make this "fly," but it’s pretty cool nonetheless. Yet another way to see one’s home, one’s previous home, or various other landmark sites from a bird’s eye. Mapping has fast become the best way to locate oneself in a virtual world.
Link: TerraFly.
Categories: mobility
personal world map
This personal world map allows you to visualize the size of your world. It has some interesting quirks, tho. Washington DC is the only city in the US that you can choose, and distance is factored only by air travel. Hmmm.
Link: personalworldmap.org.
Categories: mobility
New Urbanism in New Orleans
However, the ideas behind New Urbanism have seldom been intellectually
destroyed, with detractors preferring to sneer at the clichéd attempt
at Classicism (or Romanticism). The two other famous exemplars of New
Urbanism are Seaside in Florida, built 25 years ago (best known in
Britain as the picket-fenced setting for ‘The Truman Show’); and
Celebration, the town completed 10 years ago […]
Categories: cities
architectural machines
This is a good example of technological mobility.
Kim was among the 65 students studying architecture who were asked to
make machines, attach them to their bodies, and figure out a way to
make the machines draw, splat or dribble onto another surface.
Link: DesMoinesRegister.com.
Categories: mobility
L.A.’s future is up in the air - Los Angeles Times
Ray Bradbury on the climate specific transportation imperative of Los Angeles.
Forty years have passed, and more than ever we need an open discussion
of our future. If we examine the history of subways, we will find how
tremendously expensive and destructive they are.
They are, first of all, meant for cold climates such as Toronto,
New York, London, […]
Categories: cities
