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Read ‘Sideways’, by Josh O’Kane

Read ‘Sideways’, by Josh O’Kane

A short, legally-bound note on Josh O’Kane’s recent book ‘Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy’ (2022), about Sidewalk Labs
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The unimaginable imagined: On geoengineering and Liam Young’s ‘Planetary Redesign’

The unimaginable imagined: On geoengineering and Liam Young’s ‘Planetary Redesign’

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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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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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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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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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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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The Incomplete City

The Incomplete City

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Shepherd, sheepdog

Shepherd, sheepdog

On people, robots and cities
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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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Does anyone have information about this Fiat advert from the early nineteen-seventies?

Does anyone have information about this Fiat advert from the early ...

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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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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Visualising cities, moving cities, hearing cities

Visualising cities, moving cities, hearing cities

Readers—
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