A special issue of Information, Communication and Society just hit the stands and it’s worth a mention here. Yeah, yeah, I have an article in it, but more importantly, it’s a fantastic collection of work on the topic of “Urban Informatics: Software, Cities, and the New Cartographies of Knowing Capitalism.” Here’s the […]

Categories: placeofmedia · surveillance · Media Theory · mediated urbanism · mobility · cities · maps · web 2.0 · ubiquitous computing

The reception for the new Situated Technologies pamphlet series is taking place this Friday at the Urban Center in New York City. I really wish I could be there, but with the end of the semester fast approaching, I won’t be able to get away. This looks to be an amazing pamphlet series […]

Categories: placeofmedia · iDC · augmented_place · mixed_reality · mediated urbanism · mobility · cities · ubiquitous computing

Last week I was in Chicago at the National Communication Association conference. I never used to go to this conference, but over the past several years I’ve been attending a pre-conference seminar with this group called the Urban Communication Foundation. It’s an interdisciplinary group of folks who are concerned with the various aspects […]

Categories: placeofmedia · boston · SecondLife · city · hub2 · gene_koo · civic_engagement · cities

CCTV is a community media center in Cambridge, MA that is doing some fascinating work in the integration of web media to the mission of community television. My grad student, Colin Rhinesmith, is doing his master’s thesis on this topic and has done some exemplary research thus far on the implications of this integration. […]

Categories: placeofmedia · civic_engagement · net-locality · Community_Informatics · cities

Brilliant commentary about LA, tourism, and gambling. 
Link: the show with zefrank.

Categories: cities

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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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I think it’s great that cities are going wireless.  I think it’s magnfiicent that one day, I’ll be able to open my laptop on any street corner and download the latest on this or that or post to my blog.   I think it’s great that we’re always just a stone’s throw from the information we […]

Categories: mediated urbanism · cities · wi-fi

Joel Kotkin writing in the Washington Post about the inevitable decline of the modern city:  He argues that cities have been losing population since 2000 as a direct result of terrorism concerns. 
The kinds of policies needed to secure their safety may pose a serious dilemma for great cities that have been built upon the […]

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