May 2012
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Bring research to the streets, not to cities... →
It is likely you have heard about this project of building a new city from scratch to test new urban technologies, but no people will be living there. In fact, we first heard about it some months ago (I wrote some paragraphs linking this with my memories from Dead cities and other tales, by Mike Davis, in which he depicts the construction of a german town in Utah to test the destruction potential...
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Daily scenes in an intelligent city →
Every day, in every street, thousands of voluntary and involuntary acts facilitate (or hinder) life. The attitude of care and the awareness of sharing a common space are, in all cases, the most relevant aspects of these stories. I do not know if they are intelligent behaviors, but they are relevant. Including these key ideas in the design of technological solutions for urban functions is essential...
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The intelligence of a city is on the streets →
The real intelligence of cities lies is in the almost miraculous, unstable, spontaneous order of city life. The social relationships between people generate the functional intelligence of cities. Imperfect, conflicting, disastrous at times, always open to improvement. Technology only facilitates certain processes, and the logic of collective life will defeat any attempt to implement systems that...
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The Decline of Suburbia →
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April 2012
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Mr Greaves says: Urban Futures →
In 2006, the Architectural League partnered with Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz and Mark Shepard to organize a three-day symposium to explore the implications of situated technologies and ubiquitous computing on the built environment, to encourage architects and designers to contribute more…
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WatchGrowing Cities: A film about Urban Farming in America
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GROWING CITIES is a feature-length documentary that examines the role ofurban farming in America and asks how much power it has to revitalize our cities and change the way we eat.The film follows two friends on their journey across the country as they meet the men and women who are challenging the way this country grows and...
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Week 16 - 2012
Preparations for the workshop on urban apps are over and it is ready to be launched. In fact, the website is public and main info is there. URBAPPS will take place on the 9th of June in Valladolid. Next weeks will be dedicated to raise more support and confirm the last details of the programme before registrations are open. But I am happy to see this will turn real and we can build on this event...
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History of urbanism in the 20th century in 10... →
The “video” tag in my Delicious keeps growing and has reached 275 references. I opened this tag to prepare an experiment of facilitating a discussion session in the course Repensar las políticas urbanas 30 años después. That exercise took place late in 2010 and one year later, I posted A selection of 75 videos about cities and urban policies highlighting some of the videos that were considered for...
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Week 15 - 2012
Not too much to say as Easter holidays made this week shorter. Resting. I thought these days were going to be more productive to keep pushing in the process of writing the book, but I am starting to thing book writing is an art and completely different that writing the blog. But there´s no hurry yet.
In the meantime, I posted some articles:
Local resilience for sustainable societies: some...
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