Intervention
Friday, August 1st, 2008William Lamson (2007-2008)
via Wrong Distance
- Anne
Archive for the 'North America' Category
Urban flight?
Friday, June 27th, 2008The Atlantic: The Next Slum?
Strange days are upon the residents of many a suburban cul-de-sac. Once-tidy yards have become overgrown, as the houses they front have gone vacant. Signs of physical and social disorder are spreading … Civic organizations in some suburbs have begun to mow the lawns around empty houses to keep up the […]
Northwest Passage
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008European Space Agency Envisat mosaic image of summer sea ice in the Arctic. I’m in Ottawa and Washington this month doing interviews for a preliminary project with Phil Steinberg (Florida State University) on contested sovereignties in the Arctic and on Canada’s ‘virtual sovereignty’ in the North. On the one hand, we are reliably […]
Palo Alto Urban Petroglyph Project
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Palo Alto Urban Petroglyph Project
These petroglyphs were all photographed from one particular road in and near Palo Alto, CA. It seems that the roadworkers had some good fun–or a tradition, of laying down their extra tar. Enjoy.”
I hope they actually ask what these are all about! (via anthrodesign)
- Anne
Operation Silhouette: delegating governance
Friday, June 6th, 2008The Vancouver Sun reports that the city’s police are now using cardboard cops with radar guns to get drivers to slow down:
‘There may or may not be a police officer behind one of these cut-outs,’ Vancouver police traffic Staff Sgt. Ralph Pauw said at a news conference. Police will erect several on poles at the […]