Whether we like it or not, as urban designers and researchers we are contributing in unknown but significant ways in choosing our future technological urban lifestyles. Are we making it better or worse? For whom? And when? 1

Ubiquitous information, communication and technology help create new power geometries and spatial logics, splintering our cities along infrastructural fault lines. Rather than a neatly divided city above and below, or inside and outside, our technologies help use form a far more complex mess of interconnected networks, and the spaces between.

What is Orange County like for those who aren’t affluent 20-somethings? What does navigating Orange County feel like for those often left out of urban technology designs: first generation Vietnamese immigrants, 70 year old grandmothers using canes and living off a fixed income, Latina maids, people who don’t own cars, and other outside of the mainstream world of planned communities, art galleries and upscale malls?2

It’s funny how the circles square sometimes…