Links
BLDGBLOG: The Logistics of Distance: An Interview with Kazys Varnelis
“What opportunities do programming, telematics, and new media offer architecture? How does the network city affect the building?”
The Weekly Standard: Hola, Delaware! How Guatemalan immigrants changed a small American town
“In the past decade, the Anglo-Saxon Methodists have not just encountered immigration–they have suddenly become a minority.”
Toby Lee & Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga: pause
“In the hurried pace of life in a city defined by speed and ceaseless movement, what would happen if we just stood still?”
The Wilson Quarterly: Europe’s Mosque Hysteria
“For the first time since the Ottoman Turks were hurled back at the siege of Vienna in 1683, Europe has been gripped by dark, even apocalyptic visions of a Muslim invasion. “
The Observer: Power to the people
Review of “Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain” by Judith Flanders
Snap-Shot-City
“A world wide urban photographic treasure hunt.”
Mute: 21st Century Noir
“The result is, and will be, ‘gigantic concentrations of poverty’.”
Ryan Griffis: Parking Public
“Underneath both the empty spaces of parking and the empty promises of utopia are real economies and structures of power.”
Kevin Kelly: Street Use
“A collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity.”
Ideant: Social Media and the Networked Public Sphere
“The question we are now interested in is whether these new forms of action can emerge even against the prevailing systems of authority, or whether they are still organized and controlled within the framework of the dominant sphere of debate.”