When I first started this blog on Medium, it was to prepare for the writing of my Master’s thesis at the University of Texas at Austin.
A debate has been brewing in the smart city movement about who exactly makes the…
Without engineers, we will not have smart cities. After all, it is the engineers who…
In academia, there is this self-defeating, and sometimes pernicious, protection of…
I remember a lecture from my Being and Time course in college, where my professor explained Martin Heidegger’s notion of Being-in-the-world and how one’s world can “break down” during international travel. Leading a trip to Germany for undergraduate philosophy students, he became…
In my recent story, “Imagining the Future City,” I briefly went over 3 movements that lay claim to the…
When I look at this image of Dubai, I see the past and I sense the future. Ignore for the moment that Dubai is…