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But what was the question?

Essays and journal entries concerning technology and the city. Title lifted from Cedric Price’s “Technology is the answer. But what was the question?”

  • Urbanism
  • Architecture
  • Infrastructure
  • Tech
  • Smart cities
  • Politics
  • Two recent interviews on designing for technology and the city

    Two recent interviews on designing for technology and the city

    A presentation and Q&A for Urban AI, on designing for technology and the city, and a discussion about on tech, cities, public value…
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    Dan Hill
    Sep 10, 2022
    Lagom mobility

    Lagom mobility

    Co-opting a loose word—the Swedish concept of ‘lagom’—and redeploying it for our streets and neighbourhoods
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    Dan Hill
    Sep 30, 2021
    Landscaping connectivity

    Landscaping connectivity

    A recent thought on blurring streets and parks in Stockholm echoes an older thought on spatially shaping connectivity and informational…
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    Dan Hill
    Sep 14, 2021
    Does anyone have information about this Fiat advert from the early nineteen-seventies?

    Does anyone have information about this Fiat advert from the early nineteen-seventies?

    The crisp Krone-esque copy and layout typical of the time is actually difficult unpick. It either conveys either a wilful disregard (“Our…
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    Dan Hill
    Mar 6, 2021
    The Battle for the Infrastructure of Everyday Life

    The Battle for the Infrastructure of Everyday Life

    Written for the inaugural NGV Triennal publication
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    Dan Hill
    Dec 22, 2017
    Grid, Non-Grid

    Grid, Non-Grid

    Continuing to sketch out this thought, and this one, and this one on the implications of networked urbanism.
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    Dan Hill
    Aug 2, 2016
    On Tesla Powerwall and network urbanism

    On Tesla Powerwall and network urbanism

    The skirmish between Moore’s law and physical laws
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    Dan Hill
    Dec 30, 2015
    The Incomplete City

    The Incomplete City

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    Dan Hill
    Jun 29, 2016
    Shepherd, sheepdog

    Shepherd, sheepdog

    On people, robots and cities
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    Dan Hill
    Dec 28, 2015
    Architects without architecture

    Architects without architecture

    Emerging models for a different kind of architecture due to different kinds of technology: transdisciplinary studios for 21st‐century…
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    Dan Hill
    Dec 30, 2020
    Visualising cities, moving cities, hearing cities

    Visualising cities, moving cities, hearing cities

    Readers—
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    Dan Hill
    Feb 15, 2020
    Doppelgänger and digital twins, urban glimpses and drawing data

    Doppelgänger and digital twins, urban glimpses and drawing data

    Data versus stories, twins versus reality
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    Dan Hill
    Jan 22, 2020
    Tokyo’s model mobility, for cities large and small: Part 3 of ‘And you may find yourself behind…

    Tokyo’s model mobility, for cities large and small: Part 3 of ‘And ...

    Part three of a three-part series exploring how cities around the world are snapping out of autopilot and moving beyond the automobile.
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    Dan Hill
    Nov 10, 2019
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