The Adaptive CityOriginally published on 7 September 2008, at cityofsound.com. As I note below, this was a deliberately optimistic piece about…
Towards a new architect: an interview with Carlo RattiFirst published at cityofsound.com on 9th July 2009.Carlo Ratti and his colleagues at the SENSEable City Lab at MIT are doing as much as anyone to define a future of architecture. Ratti and I meet up at the…
Bluestone Lounge Room: Designing the Streets of Melbourne exhibition; opening speechOriginally published on July 28 2009, at cityofsound.com.
Network urbanism“The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much” — Frei OttoI’ve started posting a selection of pieces from cityofsound.com here on Medium, particularly those focusing on design, cities and technology. I’ll…
Toward the Sentient CityOriginally published on 10 October 2009, at cityofsound.com.Mark Shepard kindly asked me to contribute a review of the’Toward the Sentient City’ exhibition he’s curated for the Architectural League of New York. As the show, which runs at the Urban Center on…
On the smart city; Or, a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens insteadOriginally published at cityofsound.com on 1st February 2013.The smart city. I have “previous” here, over about a decade of writing about the interplay between cities and technology. And…
